Staff Engineer, AI Gateway

Netskope, Taipei, Taiwan +1

The role

Netskope Secure Web Gateway (SWG) governs how global enterprises reach the web and cloud, and Real-time Protection (RTP) policy is how customers define what is allowed, blocked, or inspected. The RTP team builds the backend services and APIs that manage that policy and deliver it to the Netskope platform worldwide.

We are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to architect, build, and scale these services. This is a hands-on IC role with genuine ownership: you take services from design through production and are accountable for how they behave.

We work in an AI-augmented engineering culture. AI tools accelerate us, but the engineer is always the author. We want someone who can direct AI toward correct, generic solutions, recognize when it produced something that merely works instead of something that is right, and hold every line of code to the same standard: lean, meaningful, and exactly fit for its purpose.

What you will do

Service Architecture and Implementation. Design, build, and scale concurrent, robust microservices and APIs in Golang.

What you need

Required Skills and Experience

Background. 8+ years in software engineering, with 5+ years on backend services and distributed systems.
Golang Depth. Strong Golang skills across interface and package design, error handling, concurrency, performance profiling, and table-driven unit testing; hands-on with Gin and gRPC.
Clean Code Mindset. Lean, readable, purposeful code; you know when an abstraction is earned and when it is premature.
Practical AI Tooling Experience. Real-world use of LLM-based coding agents, with examples of steering them toward correct solutions and catching what they missed.
Review Insight. Evaluate PR quality and give specific, well-reasoned feedback that improves both the code and the engineer.
Distributed Architecture. Microservice patterns, REST/gRPC API design, event-driven systems (e.g., Kafka), and caching (e.g., Redis).
Databases. NoSQL and SQL databases such as MongoDB and MySQL, including schema, sharding, and index design.
Cloud-Native Delivery. Develop, deploy, and debug services on Kubernetes (e.g., Helm), and write application-level metrics (e.g., Prometheus).
Ownership and Communication. Drive under-specified problems to shipped software. Strong verbal and written English. Proactive, timely communication; track cross-team dependencies and timelines and escalate risks early.

What Makes You Stand Out

Background in Secure Web Gateway, Zero Trust, CASB, or DLP products.
Ability to benchmark competing technologies and justify architectural choices with measured trade-offs.
Experience with multi-tenant SaaS control planes or policy/configuration systems.
Hands-on cloud development on AWS, GCP, or Azure.
Knowledge of emerging GenAI and cloud service security challenges and best practices.
Experience in regulated environments such as FedRAMP.

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Staff Engineer, AI Gateway

The role

What you will do

Staff Engineer, AI Gateway

The role

What you will do

What you need

Required Skills and Experience

What Makes You Stand Out

Join the Future of Security at Netskope

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