# Director, Engineering, Agentic AI at Netskope

- Company: Netskope
- What the company does: Secure and accelerate your cloud, data, and AI everywhere. Achieve unified visibility, advanced SASE & SSE protection, and optimized performance. Backed by Accel, Lightspeed and ICONIQ.
- Company website: http://www.netskope.com
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Principal and up
- Location: Santa Clara, California, United States
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-09-04
- Apply by: 2026-10-19
- Apply: https://www.netskope.com/company/careers/open-positions/?gh_jid=8181005
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/netskope-director-engineering-agentic-ai/

## 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.

## What they're looking for

- Architect the Future: Guide senior architects and mentor junior engineers to make strong architecture and design decisions that utilize the latest AI breakthroughs
- Set the Strategy: Collaborate with our product team to promote engineering innovation and out-of-the-box thinking, utilizing both to make strategic decisions on prioritizing feature delivery and timelines
- Cultivate Talent: Provide hands-on coaching and continuous development of our engineers to maximize their potential, understand them as people, and help them grow in their careers
- Advocate for Customers: Participate in discussions with customers to help shape the decisions you make from both an engineering and product perspective
- Relentlessly Learn: Master the rapidly evolving AI landscape and distill complex research into actionable strategies that enable our team to pivot, adopt new paradigms, and maintain a competitive edge
- Extensive work experience: 15+ years of software engineering experience, 8+ years leading engineering teams, 4+ years in cybersecurity

Tags: AI R&D