# Principal Engineer, Secure Web Gateway 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
- Level: Principal and up
- Location: Santa Clara, California, United States
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-09-11
- Apply by: 2026-10-26
- Apply: https://www.netskope.com/company/careers/open-positions/?gh_jid=8196024
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/netskope-principal-engineer-secure-web-gateway/

## 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 Cloud Data Plane 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 they're looking for

- 18+ years of overall experience, including 10+ years of experience building high-performance networking software and cloud services
- 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
- Programming mastery in key programming languages (C/C++ or python), and ability to review code in these and other popular programming languages
- Strong understanding of computer architecture – multi-threading, CPU scheduling, memory management with practical knowledge of Linux at system/kernel level
- A strong understanding of available AI tools / models and the ability to effectively apply them to your projects and workflows

Tags: Security Services