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# Sr. Staff Engineer, Cloud Firewall

- **Company:** Netskope
- **Location:** Santa Clara, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $124,500.0 - $220,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Firewall, Automation of Tests, C++ (Programming Language), Software as a Service, Cloud Computing, Computer Programming, Computer Networks, Continuous Integration, Data Structures, Linux, Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Internet Protocol Security (IP SEC), Python (Programming Language), Microsoft Cluster Server, Open Source Technology, Platform as a Service (PAAS), Cloud Services, Service Development Studio, Spinnaker, Virtualization Technology, Cloud Platform System, Autoscaling, Firewalls (Computer Science), Kubernetes, Jenkins
- **Published:** October 30, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/eae18033-0e5c-4b7e-8fff-bc2ef2da95a4

## About the Role

* 8+ years of relevant industry experience.
 * Experience with data packet and flow-based forwarding, firewalls, and tunneling protocols.
 * Experience with one or more of VPP, OFP, or Quagga.
 * Experience building cloud products (IaaS, PaaS, or SaaS).
 * Knowledge of network and application firewall technologies such as NAT, IPsec, and IPS.
 * Knowledge of CI/CD, including Jenkins or Spinnaker.
 * Strong C and Linux programming skills, including data structures, auto-scaling, and performance.
 * Experience programming in Python.
 * Excellent written and verbal communication skills., * 10+ years of relevant industry experience
 * Experience with Data packet/flow based forwarding, Firewalls and tunneling protocols
 * Experience with one or more of VPP, OFP, Quagga. OVS experience is a plus.
 * Experience building cloud products - IAAS, PAAS, SaaS
 * Knowledge of Network and Application firewalls like NAT, IPsec, IPS
 * Knowledge of virtualization, NFVs, VM's, Containers, Kubernetes is a plus
 * Knowledge of CI/CD, Jenkins or Spinnaker
 * Good C / C++ and Linux programming skills including data structure, auto-scaling and performance
 * Experience programming with Python
 * Excellent written and verbal communication skills, * BSCS or equivalent required, MSCS or equivalent strongly preferred

## Description

Netskope Cloud Firewall provides Firewall as a Service (FWaaS) for egress network traffic within SASE architectures. By connecting users and branch offices to NewEdge, one of the world's largest and most performant private security clouds, Cloud Firewall secures connections in transit while delivering enhanced security and lower operational overhead compared to legacy hardware.

What's in it for you

You will be a member of a team using state of the art tools and technologies to design, develop and deliver a performant, scalable system that processes network packets at cloud-scale. In addition to design and development of the core system, you will participate in the development of all related automated test infrastructure and CI/CD integration. Your contributions to this effort will be used by thousands of enterprise customers globally.

What you will be doing

 * Designing, developing, and supporting high-performance, scalable cloud systems and services.
 * Working with other service development teams, product management, and support to keep your services, and the ones they depend on, scalable, supportable, and available.
 * Resolving customer issues quickly to improve response times and customer satisfaction.
 * Evaluating open source technologies, picking the best fit, and contributing ideas back to the open source community.
 * Help build automated test infrastructure and CI/CD integration for the core system.