Sr. Staff Engineer, Cloud Firewall

Netskope · Santa Clara, California, United States · Engineering

Posted 2026-10-28

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About the role

Netskope Cloud Firewall provides Firewall as a Service (FWaaS) for egress network traffic within SASE architectures. By connecting users and branch offices to NewEdge, one of the world's largest and most performant private security clouds, Cloud Firewall secures connections in transit while delivering enhanced security and lower operational overhead compared to legacy hardware.

What's in it for you

You will be a member of a team using state of the art tools and technologies to design, develop and deliver a performant, scalable system that processes network packets at cloud-scale. In addition to design and development of the core system, you will participate in the development of all related automated test infrastructure and CI/CD integration. Your contributions to this effort will be used by thousands of enterprise customers globally.

What you will be doing

Designing, developing, and supporting high-performance, scalable cloud systems and services.

Working with other service development teams, product management, and support to keep your services, and the ones they depend on, scalable, supportable, and available.

Resolving customer issues quickly to improve response times and customer satisfaction.

Evaluating open source technologies, picking the best fit, and contributing ideas back to the open source community.

Help build automated test infrastructure and CI/CD integration for the core system.

Required skills and experience

8+ years of relevant industry experience.

Experience with data packet and flow-based forwarding, firewalls, and tunneling protocols.

Experience with one or more of VPP, OFP, or Quagga.

Experience building cloud products (IaaS, PaaS, or SaaS).

Knowledge of network and application firewall technologies such as NAT, IPsec, and IPS.

Knowledge of CI/CD, including Jenkins or Spinnaker.

Strong C and Linux programming skills, including data structures, auto-scaling, and performance.

Experience programming in Python.

Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Required skills and experience

10+ years of relevant industry experience

Experience with Data packet/flow based forwarding, Firewalls and tunneling protocols

Experience with one or more of VPP, OFP, Quagga. OVS experience is a plus.

Experience building cloud products – IAAS, PAAS, SaaS

Knowledge of Network and Application firewalls like NAT, IPsec, IPS

Knowledge of virtualization, NFVs, VM’s, Containers, Kubernetes is a plus

Knowledge of CI/CD, Jenkins or Spinnaker

Good C / C++ and Linux programming skills including data structure, auto-scaling and performance

Experience programming with Python

Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Education

BSCS or equivalent required, MSCS or equivalent strongly preferred

Compensation:

At Netskope, salary is one component of our competitive total rewards package. The salary range for this position is as listed below. This is a national range. For purposes of complying with applicable laws, the range applies to candidates in California, Colorado, Illinois, Maryland, New York, Washington, and other states.

The successful candidate’s starting pay will also be determined based on job-related skills, experience, qualifications, location, and market conditions.

For all sales roles, the posted salary range is the On Target Earnings (OTE) range for the role, which is the sum of base salary and target commission amount at 100% goal achievement.

In addition to salary, candidates may be eligible for other forms of compensation such as participation in a bonus plan (for non-sales roles) and a stock award program. Candidates may also be eligible for a comprehensive health plan and other benefits that can be reviewed at Netskope Benefits site.

Salary Range

$124,500—$220,000 USD

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