Staff Engineer, DSPM

Netskope · India · 6–9 yrs experience · Posted 2026-07-18

Tech stack: AWS, Docker, Java, Kubernetes, Scala

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About the role

Responsibilities:
- Within Netskope Engineering, the DSPM team is responsible for building cloud-scale Data Security Posture Management that give enterprises visibility, compliance for structured and unstructured data stores.
- We are a distributed team of engineers who have a passion for learning new skills and building great products.
- Our product has been built from the ground up in Scala, on top of the Lightbend stack (Play/Akka).
- As a member of the DSPM team, you will have the opportunity to develop innovative and scalable systems to protect the exponentially increasing amount of enterprise data.
- We’re looking to hire backend software engineers who are excited to learn new technologies and comfortable diving into different levels of our stack.
- For this position, we are seeking experienced candidates with specialized skills that are able to jump in, learn quickly, and contribute wherever is needed.
- As an early team member, your work will have a lot of impact and you’ll help shape the culture of the company.
- Work with the engineering team to design, build, and test our cloud-based platform including front-end, back-end, and services.
- Participate in feature estimation, feature prioritization, sprint planning, biweekly sprints, code reviews, and sprint retros.
- Contribute to product development: understand customer needs and work with the product team to design, plan, and implement new features.
- Support early customers of our software by investigating and fixing production issues.
- Help us improve our processes and make the right tradeoffs between agility, cost, and reliability.
Qualifications:
- 6 - 9 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 backend.
- Deep knowledge on databases, optimization of queries, views.
- Development on cloud platforms including AWS.
- Expertise in building scalable event based asynchronous systems based on the microservices architecture.
- Experience working with docker and kubernetes.
- Willing to learn, challenge yourself, and share your ideas with the team.
- 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.
- Must have expertise in building REST APIs.
- BSCS or equivalent required, MSCS or equivalent strongly preferred

Qualifications

- 9 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 backend.
- Deep knowledge on databases, optimization of queries, views.
- Development on cloud platforms including AWS.
- Expertise in building scalable event based asynchronous systems based on the microservices architecture.
- Experience working with docker and kubernetes.
- Willing to learn, challenge yourself, and share your ideas with the team.
- 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.
- Must have expertise in building REST APIs.
- BSCS or equivalent required, MSCS or equivalent strongly preferred

Responsibilities

- Within Netskope Engineering, the DSPM team is responsible for building cloud-scale Data Security Posture Management that give enterprises visibility, compliance for structured and unstructured data stores.
- We are a distributed team of engineers who have a passion for learning new skills and building great products.
- Our product has been built from the ground up in Scala, on top of the Lightbend stack (Play/Akka).
- As a member of the DSPM team, you will have the opportunity to develop innovative and scalable systems to protect the exponentially increasing amount of enterprise data.
- We’re looking to hire backend software engineers who are excited to learn new technologies and comfortable diving into different levels of our stack.
- For this position, we are seeking experienced candidates with specialized skills that are able to jump in, learn quickly, and contribute wherever is needed.
- As an early team member, your work will have a lot of impact and you’ll help shape the culture of the company.
- Work with the engineering team to design, build, and test our cloud-based platform including front-end, back-end, and services.
- Participate in feature estimation, feature prioritization, sprint planning, biweekly sprints, code reviews, and sprint retros.
- Contribute to product development: understand customer needs and work with the product team to design, plan, and implement new features.
- Support early customers of our software by investigating and fixing production issues.
- Help us improve our processes and make the right tradeoffs between agility, cost, and reliability.

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