# Sr. Engineering Manager, Data Security 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: Senior
- Location: Santa Clara, California, United States
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-07-29
- Apply by: 2026-10-12
- Apply: https://www.netskope.com/company/careers/open-positions/?gh_jid=8095510
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/netskope-sr-engineering-manager-data-security/

## About the role

The Netskope Data Security team provides unrivaled visibility and real-time protection, ensuring customer data is secured wherever it resides. As a Senior Engineering Manager, you will lead the Data Lineage team—the architects of a high-performance platform that traces the movement and transformation of data across cloud applications, endpoints, and on-premises systems.

## What they're looking for

- Engineering Leadership: 10+ years of software engineering experience, including 3+ years leading engineering teams. Proven track record in hiring, performance management, and driving technical roadmaps
- Product leadership: Track record of collaborating with product managers to define scope, prioritize backlogs, and ship customer-facing outcomes
- Strategic communication: Ability to bridge engineering, product, and leadership audiences, translating complex technical trade-offs into decision-ready recommendations
- Bias for action: Experience operating in ambiguous environments, shaping roadmaps when requirements are incomplete, and navigating evolving problem spaces
- Distributed Systems: Demonstrated experience owning and scaling high-throughput, distributed streaming systems (e.g., Kafka) in production environments
- Operational Excellence: Proven track record in fostering a culture of operational rigor. Experience defining reliability strategies and establishing meaningful SLOs

Tags: Security Services