About the team

We are seeking an exceptional Principal Engineer to build next-generation security analytics and AI-powered capabilities within Netskopes platform. This is a high-impact individual contributor role for an engineer who excels at solving complex technical problems at the intersection of artificial intelligence large-scale data systems and cybersecurity.

As a Principal Engineer you will design and implement sophisticated systems that leverage cutting-edge AI/ML techniques graph-based analytics and real-time data processing to solve critical security challenges. You will work on problems spanning threat detection risk assessment behavioral analytics and intelligent automationbuilding the systems that help security teams at the worlds largest enterprises detect and respond to threats.

Whats in it for you

This is your chance to work at the absolute intersection of Artificial Intelligence large-scale Data Systems and Cybersecurity. You wont just use existing tools; you will be designing and implementing sophisticated cutting-edge systems that fundamentally change how enterprises detect and respond to threats.

What you will be doing

• Drive the enhancement of Agentic AI security capabilities by enabling the continuous detection and posture management of sensitive or risky data. This includes data utilized in (but not limited to) training private LLMs or accessed and acted upon by public or multi-agent LLM systems
• Improve the Agentic AI platform to extend seamless support to all major cloud infrastructures on-prem deployments and any new upcoming data or AI-centric technologies.
• Provide technical leadership in all phases of a project from discovery and planning through implementation and delivery.
• Contribute to product development: understand customer requirements and work with the product team to design plan and implement features.
• Support customers by investigating and fixing production issues.
• Help us improve our processes and make the right tradeoffs between agility cost and reliability.
• Collaborate with the teams across geographies.

Required skills and experience

• 14 years of software development experience with enterprise-grade software.
• Must have experience in building scalable high-performance cloud services.
• Expert coding skills in Scala or Java.
• Development on cloud platforms including AWS.
• Deep knowledge on databases and data warehouses (OLTP OLAP)
• Analytical and troubleshooting skills.
• Experience working with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Able to multitask and wear many hats in a fast-paced environment. This week you might lead the design of a new feature next week you are fixing a critical bug or improving our CI infrastructure.
• Cybersecurity experience and adversarial thinking is a plus.
• Expertise in building REST APIs.
• Experience leveraging cloud-based AI services (e.g. AWS Bedrock SageMaker) vector databases and Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) architectures is a plus.

Education

• BSCS or equivalent required MSCS or equivalent strongly preferred

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