Principal Engineer, Secure Service Mesh

PLEASE APPLY THIS JOB FROM: https://grnh.se/44f9b3721us <About the role> Please note, this team is hiring across all levels and candidates are individually assessed and appropriately leveled based upon their skills and experience. Netskope Secure Service Mesh engineers architect and design one of the most scalable, high-performance cloud data planes in the world, processing 10+ Gbps of traffic, performing deep inspection using state-of-the-art techniques like AI/ML to detect activities and apply advanced policies like DLP, Threat and UEBA protection, all at line rate. <What’s in it for you> In this role you will be a key member of the Secure Service Mesh team to design and develop security services to protect generative AI/ML applications and services. Netskope has been recognized by Gartner as market leaders in their Magic Quadrant reports <What you will be doing> - Setting and driving the overall architectural design and strategic technical directions for the Secure Service Mesh team - Understanding requirement specs and designing and implementing high-quality features that ensure reliability, sustainability, scalability and observability for data plane - Working with Product Management to understand customer requirements and provide architectural guidance. - Providing technical leadership by sharing and adapting industry leading practices for the benefit of the company. - Build scalable and performant services that inspect various network protocols, such as HTTP/HTTPS, at line rate using advanced data structures and algorithms in C, C++, Golang. For example, analyze content in real-time to provide security and perform deep inspection of traffic in near real time - Integrate with other features like IPS, DLP and Threat protection and other ML services <Required skills and experience> - 15+ years of overall experience, including 10+ years of experience building high-performance networking software and cloud services.  - Expertise in one of the two: either datapath high efficient packets processing or high performant service mesh in C++ or Golang - Expertise in building high throughput and low latency data systems, such as networking from Layer 3 to Layer 7, web proxy, security, monitoring and observability, web and mobile applications, data processing, etc. - Expertise in dealing with complex architectural problems across multiple products and at the same time handling design issues at module level.  - Strong understanding of computer architecture – multi-threading, CPU scheduling, memory management with practical knowledge of Linux at system/kernel level - Hands-on experience handling complex and ambiguous customer issues. Persistence in accomplishing objectives despite uncertain situations, obstacles, and setbacks. - Strong communication skills and the ability to position views and arguments appropriately to win support. The ability to negotiate skillfully in tough situations in order to win concessions without damaging relationships, and to respond effectively to the reactions and positions of others. - Confidence under pressure, a mature EQ, and the ability to show a high degree of self control while maintaining a positive attitude despite adversity.  - Willingness to work with a globally distributed team in different time zones. - The ability to represent the company in appropriate external forums and industry events promoting thought technical leadership. <Additional Skill and Knowledge> - Experience in working with cloud platforms such as AWS and GCP. - Experience with industry, open source technologies such as gRPC, Envoy Proxy, Kong, Kubernetes - Proponent of TDD a big plus, knowledge of various unit testing frameworks <Education> - BSCS or equivalent required, MSCS or equivalent strongly preferred