Distinguished Engineer – AI-Powered Security Analytics
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Job Location:
Santa Clara County, CA - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
Yesterday
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
About Netskope
Today theres 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 atNetskope Careers. Please follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter@Netskope.
The Opportunity
We are seeking an exceptional Distinguished Engineer to architect next-generation security analytics and AI-powered capabilities within Netskopes platform. This is a high-impact individual contributor role designed for an engineer who excels at solving complex technical problems at the intersection of artificial intelligence large-scale data systems and cybersecurityand who thrives when working on problems that matter.
As a Distinguished Engineer you will be a technical authority and strategic thought leader designing and implementing sophisticated systems that leverage cutting-edge AI/ML techniques graph-based analytics and real-time data processing to solve critical security challenges that protect the worlds largest enterprises.
What Youll Own
Your scope spans the full architecture of our security analytics platform:
- Intelligent Data Ingestion & Processing: Design high-throughput fault-tolerant systems that ingest and normalize security data at massive scale while maintaining data fidelity and cost efficiency
- Next-Generation Query & Analytics: Evaluate select and optimize query engines (e.g. Trino ClickHouse StarRocks Spark) to deliver sub-second insights on petabyte-scale datasets
- Semantic Layer for Agentic AI: Build the data abstraction and access layer that enables AI agents to reason over security data autonomously securely and accurately
- Tiered Storage Architecture: Design intelligent data lifecycle strategiesfrom hot operational storage to cold archivebalancing query performance cost and compliance
- Intelligent Automation & Detection: Develop ML-driven threat detection anomaly identification and automated response mechanisms that scale across millions of events per second
Why This Matters
Security teams at enterprise scale are drowning in data but starving for insight. Your systems will transform raw telemetry into actionable intelligenceenabling security operations centers to detect understand and respond to threats in minutes instead of days. Youll directly impact the security posture of some of the worlds most critical organizations.
What Were Looking For
Technical Excellence
Deep expertise in distributed systems data architecture or ML systems engineeringProven ability to make principled trade-offs between performance cost scalability and reliabilityExperience building or optimizing systems that handle high-volume low-latency data workflowsStrong foundation in modern data platforms (cloud-native architectures data lakes streaming systems)
Architectural Thinking
You design systems that others execute on not just execute systems others designedYou anticipate failure modes performance cliffs and operational complexityand design them outYou can speak fluently about graph databases semantic layers LLM integration and their security implicationsYou balance innovation with pragmatism; you build the minimum necessary sophistication to solve the problem
Impact & Influence
Youve shipped systems that scaled beyond their original design; you learned from and improved themYou communicate complex technical ideas clearly to both technical teams and non-technical stakeholdersYoure comfortable being the technical authority on hard problemsand comfortable saying we need more data or this approach wont scaleYou thrive in ambiguity and can drive clarity through technical investigation
Bonus Strengths
Experience with LLMs RAG (retrieval-augmented generation) or agentic AI systemsBackground in cybersecurity threat detection or security analyticsTrack record building platforms that others depend on (vs. point solutions)Comfort with open-source technologies and contributing to the broader engineering community
The Environment
Youll join Netskopes Data & Analytics engineering organizationa globally distributed team of architects and builders who are modernizing how security intelligence flows through enterprises. Youll work closely with:
- Product & Security: Partner with product leaders and security researchers to understand emerging threats and translate them into data requirements
- Platform Teams: Collaborate with infrastructure SRE and platform engineers to ensure your systems operate reliably at scale
- Customer Engineering: Engage with our largest customers to validate that your architectures solve real-world security challenges
This role is not a manager trackits a deep technical leadership position where your influence comes from the clarity of your thinking and the impact of your work.
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Compensation:
At Netskope salary is one component of our competitive total rewards package. The salary range for this position is as listed below. This is a national range. For purposes of complying with applicable laws the range applies to candidates in California Colorado Illinois Maryland New York Washington and other states.
The successful candidates starting pay will also be determined based on job-related skills experience qualifications location and market conditions.
For all sales roles the posted salary range is the On Target Earnings (OTE) range for the role which is the sum of base salary and target commission amount at 100% goal achievement.
In addition to salary candidates may be eligible for other forms of compensation such as participation in a bonus plan (for non-sales roles) and a stock award program. Candidates may also be eligible for a comprehensive health plan and other benefits that can be reviewed atNetskope Benefits site.
Netskope is committed to implementing equal employment opportunities for all employees and applicants for employment. Netskope does not discriminate in employment opportunities or practices based on religion race color sex marital or veteran statues age national origin ancestry physical or mental disability medical condition sexual orientation gender identity/expression genetic information pregnancy (including childbirth lactation and related medical conditions) or any other characteristic protected by the laws or regulations of any jurisdiction in which we operate.
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The application window for this position is expected to close within 50 days. You may apply by filling out the below information or visiting ourNetskope Careers site.
Required Experience:
IC
Key Skills
- Adobe Analytics
- Data Analytics
- SQL
- Attribution Modeling
- Power BI
- R
- Regression Analysis
- Data Visualization
- Tableau
- Data Mining
- SAS
- Analytics
About Company
Netskope, a global cybersecurity leader, is redefining cloud, data, and network security to help organizations apply zero trust principles to protect data.
