Staff Software Development Engineer in Test, DAPII

About Netskope
Today, there's more data and users outside the enterprise than inside, causing the network perimeter as we know it to dissolve. We realized a new perimeter was needed, one that is built in the cloud and follows and protects data wherever it goes, so we started Netskope to redefine Cloud, Network and Data Security.

Since 2012, we have built the market-leading cloud security company and an award-winning culture powered by hundreds of employees spread across offices in Santa Clara, St. Louis, Bangalore, London, Paris, Melbourne, Taipei, and Tokyo. Our core values are openness, honesty, and transparency, and we purposely developed our open desk layouts and large meeting spaces to support and promote partnerships, collaboration, and teamwork. From catered lunches and office celebrations to employee recognition events and social professional groups such as the Awesome Women of Netskope (AWON), we strive to keep work fun, supportive and interactive. Visit us at Netskope Careers. Please follow us on LinkedIn and .

About The Team
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's In It For You
In this role you will be a key member of our in-line CASB Inline product, which have been recognized by Gartner as market leaders in their Magic Quadrant reports:

Netskope CASB in Gartner 2023 SSE Magic Quadrant

What You Will Be Doing

• Review product design and suggest improvements from testability and user perspective.
• Through understanding of Data Plane architecture and packet processing pipeline with domain knowledge in handling Application traffic and security packet inspection techniques like Data loss prevention, Threat Inspection.
• Design and deliver effective and automatable test plans.
• Write test automation which can execute on large parallelized CI/CD Infrastructure
• Be an effective code reviewer for automation and product code.
• Analyze and recommend the right tools for automation.
• Simulate negative scenarios and perform chaos testing.
• Handle customer escalations by recreation, collecting debug logs, work with Development teams on root cause analysis and drive customer issues to closure from QE perspective.
• Work closely with the development team, product management, Support team and other stakeholders in various phases of product development to ensure alignment with strategy, planning, risks and mitigations.
• Through understanding of the SDLC process.
• Perform real-time content analysis to ensure robust security measures.
• Conduct deep inspection of traffic to detect and mitigate threats in near real-time.
• Write and maintain product or system development code, ensuring high standards of quality.
• Develop Automation scripts and maintain comprehensive documentation.
• Build and maintain services capable of inspecting various network protocols, such as HTTP, at line rate.
• Review and provide feedback on code developed by other team members to ensure adherence to best practices, including style guidelines, code accuracy, testability, and efficiency.
• Contribute to the architecture and design of distributed systems, focusing on scalability, reliability, and efficiency.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including software engineers, system architects, and product managers, to deliver high-quality software solutions.

Required Skills And Experience

• 10+ years of industry experience in designing and developing automated tests and frameworks for enterprise grade software, including direct experience developing scalable, high-performance cloud services based upon microservices architecture
• Experience in network and web security technologies - firewalls, Web Application Firewall, L7 Access-Policies, web security, IDP / IPS, DNS based security, L7 DDoS.
• Deep understanding of networking protocols including TCP/IP, HTTP/S,WebSocket, DNS, TLS/SSL decryption (MITM) techniques, L3 VPNs like IPSec, Wireguard etc..
• Must Have Good fundamentals of TCP, TLS, HTTP protocols.
• Must Have Http proxy experience.
• Programming mastery in Python.
• Strong understanding of computer architecture – multi-threading, CPU scheduling, memory management
• Good understanding of algorithms and data structure to implement Real-time inline data processing
• Strong expertise in RESTful Web Service automation and Day-1 automation readiness.
• Strong expertise in cloud technologies like Docker, Kubernetes, Helm etc.
• Expertise in message protocols like KAFKA, NATS etc.
• Expertise in capturing the packets using Wireshark, tcpdump etc. and analyzing the packets captured.
• Proven experience in data plane/data path testing for security products (e.g., Firewalls, Proxies, IDPS, DPI engines).
• Well versed with automation tools like Robot framework, Selenium, Healenium, Playwright MCP etc.
• Strong expertise in Solution testing, Load and Stress testing, Longevity, WebUI testing and automation with relevance in L7 Security.
• Strong understanding of computer architecture, including multi-threading, CPU scheduling, and memory management.
• Advanced understanding of algorithms and data structures for real-time in-line data processing.
• Extensive knowledge of Linux at a systems level.
• Exceptional analytical and troubleshooting skills, proficient in using debuggers like gdb and tools like Valgrind.
• Experience with performance optimization and scalability of complex systems.
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills using debuggers like gdb and tools like Valgrind.
• Hands-on experience with packet capture technologies (e.g., tcpdump, Wireshark, libpcap) for network traffic analysis and troubleshooting.
• Experience working within a SASE (Secure Access Service Edge) architecture is a major plus.
• Strong knowledge of Authentication technologies including Identity and Access Management, SSO, SAML, OpenID, OAuth2, and MFA is a Plus.

Education

• BSCS or equivalent required, MSCS or equivalent strongly preferred

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