Netskope
About this role
Netskope is a cloud security company founded in 2012, and the DSPM team builds cloud scale Data Security Posture Management: giving enterprises visibility and compliance across both structured and unstructured data stores. The technical detail worth knowing up front is the stack, because it is unusual: the product was built from the ground up in Scala on the Lightbend stack, using Play and Akka. So expert Scala or Java backend skills are the core requirement, alongside event based asynchronous systems in a microservices architecture, Docker and Kubernetes, and AWS. The posting describes a distributed team and an early team member role where your work shapes both the product and the culture. It also asks for range rather than depth alone: leading a feature design one week, fixing a critical bug or improving CI infrastructure the next. Cybersecurity experience and adversarial thinking are listed among the requirements.
Who this is for
What the posting requires:
- 6 to 9 years of software development experience with enterprise grade software.
- Experience building scalable, high performance cloud services.
- Expert coding skills in Scala or Java backend. The product is built in Scala on the Lightbend stack with Play and Akka.
- Deep knowledge of databases, query optimisation and views.
- Development on cloud platforms including AWS.
- Expertise building scalable, event based asynchronous systems on a microservices architecture.
- Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
- Expertise building REST APIs.
- Cybersecurity experience and adversarial thinking.
- Willingness to learn, challenge yourself and share ideas with the team.
- Ability to multitask across roles in a fast paced environment: leading a feature design one week, fixing a critical bug or improving CI the next.
- A BSCS or equivalent is required, MSCS or equivalent strongly preferred.
What the work actually looks like:
- Work with the engineering team to design, build and test the cloud based platform across front end, back end and services.
- Participate in feature estimation and prioritisation, sprint planning, biweekly sprints, code reviews and retrospectives.
- Contribute to product development: understand customer needs and work with product to design, plan and implement new features.
- Support early customers by investigating and fixing production issues.
- Improve processes and make the right tradeoffs between agility, cost and reliability.
Levelling, which matters here: the posting states this team is hiring across all levels and that candidates are individually assessed and levelled based on their skills and experience. So the Staff in the title is not a hard floor.
Location and working pattern: listed as India without a specific city. Netskope has a Bangalore office and describes open desk layouts, so confirm the base location with the recruiter.
Honest fit guidance: the Scala requirement is the real filter. Netskope will take strong Java backend engineers, since the posting says Scala or Java, but the codebase is Scala on Play and Akka and you would be working in it daily. If you have wanted an excuse to work in Scala at scale on a security product, this is one of the few such roles in India. The early team member framing means less structure than a mature team.
- 6 to 9 years of software development experience with enterprise grade software.
- Experience building scalable, high performance cloud services.
- Expert coding skills in Scala or Java backend. The product is built in Scala on the Lightbend stack with Play and Akka.
- Deep knowledge of databases, query optimisation and views.
- Development on cloud platforms including AWS.
- Expertise building scalable, event based asynchronous systems on a microservices architecture.
- Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
- Expertise building REST APIs.
- Cybersecurity experience and adversarial thinking.
- Willingness to learn, challenge yourself and share ideas with the team.
- Ability to multitask across roles in a fast paced environment: leading a feature design one week, fixing a critical bug or improving CI the next.
- A BSCS or equivalent is required, MSCS or equivalent strongly preferred.
What the work actually looks like:
- Work with the engineering team to design, build and test the cloud based platform across front end, back end and services.
- Participate in feature estimation and prioritisation, sprint planning, biweekly sprints, code reviews and retrospectives.
- Contribute to product development: understand customer needs and work with product to design, plan and implement new features.
- Support early customers by investigating and fixing production issues.
- Improve processes and make the right tradeoffs between agility, cost and reliability.
Levelling, which matters here: the posting states this team is hiring across all levels and that candidates are individually assessed and levelled based on their skills and experience. So the Staff in the title is not a hard floor.
Location and working pattern: listed as India without a specific city. Netskope has a Bangalore office and describes open desk layouts, so confirm the base location with the recruiter.
Honest fit guidance: the Scala requirement is the real filter. Netskope will take strong Java backend engineers, since the posting says Scala or Java, but the codebase is Scala on Play and Akka and you would be working in it daily. If you have wanted an excuse to work in Scala at scale on a security product, this is one of the few such roles in India. The early team member framing means less structure than a mature team.
Apply on company site
Opens www.netskope.com, the employer's own application page. Applying is always free.