Staff / Sr. Staff, Backend Engineer - Configuration & Telemetry
Netskope
Bengaluru, Karnataka, IndiaPosted 1 month ago
Skill Required
Security ServicesBackend DeveloperSystem DesignData StructuresCloud SecurityKubernetesnetworkingdesigningsecurityPythonGolangdesignCloudAPIsETLAWSCryptographyAIMachine Learning
Key highlights
- Senior Staff Backend Engineer role
- 10+ years of industry experience required
- Green-field backend development opportunity
- Work with large-scale production signals
Role overview
Join the Future of Security at Netskope. Netskope (NASDAQ: NTSK) is a leader in modern security and networking for the cloud and AI era, securing and accelerating cloud, data, and AI in real time. As a Senior Staff Backend Engineer, you will build the configuration service driving every client and the telemetry pipeline that transforms raw production signals into actionable insights for performance, security, and quality. This role involves green-field backend development, setting new patterns, and working at a scale few teams experience, leveraging Netskope’s large customer base for production signals.
Responsibilities
- Build the configuration backend service that manages and delivers config to clients.
- Build the telemetry pipeline: ingest usage events, run a multi-category classifier, aggregate performance/security/quality patterns, and feed per-user and exec dashboards.
- Design and ship reliable, observable, secure services and APIs in Golang and/or Python.
- Partner with the ML team (which consumes the data) and the endpoint team (which emits it), and with partner orgs on the dashboard front-end.
Requirements
- 10+ years of overall industry experience, with 6+ years in backend/services and distributed systems in Golang and/or Python: services, APIs, and data pipelines/ETL you’ve built and operated in production.
- Experience with telemetry, event, or data pipelines and the storage/query systems behind them.
- Expertise with Kubernetes and cloud platforms (AWS) for deploying, scaling, and operating production services.
- Understanding of REST/HTTPS/TLS and designing and shipping secure APIs.
- Expertise with data structures and algorithms; strong communication skills.
- BS Computer Science or equivalent required
Nice to have
- MS Computer Science or equivalent preferred.
- Fluency with agentic coding systems and genuine curiosity about agent harnesses like Claude Code, Pi, and Codex, bonus if you’ve instrumented one.
Additional details
- Please note, this team is hiring across all levels and candidates are individually assessed and appropriately leveled based upon their skills and experience.
- You build the measurement engine. The team’s whole strategy, optimize where the data points, runs on the pipeline you own.
- Green-field backend. This function is net-new. You’ll set the patterns, not inherit them.
- Real scale to build against. Netskope’s customer footprint gives your pipelines production signals at a volume most teams never touch.
- Netskope is committed to implementing equal employment opportunities for all employees and applicants for employment. Netskope does not discriminate in employment opportunities or practices based on religion, race, color, sex, marital or veteran statuses, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, genetic information, pregnancy (including childbirth, lactation and related medical conditions), or any other characteristic protected by the laws or regulations of any jurisdiction in which we operate.
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