Netskope: Staff Engineer, DSPM — India

About Netskope

Netskope develops security and networking technology for cloud, data and AI environments. Its employer introduction identifies the Netskope One platform, a zero-trust engine and the NewEdge network as parts of that offering. The business describes giving organisations visibility and control while maintaining the performance of access to applications and information. This connects cybersecurity with networking: the products address both how digital resources are reached and how their use is controlled and protected.

The position and its setting

Netskope lists Staff Engineer, DSPM in India, under reference 7981775. The details below separate the work described by the employer from essential conditions, preferred experience and practical preparation advice.

• Department: Data Engineering
• Employer listing date: 9 June 2026

Responsibilities and work described

• Please note, this team is hiring across all levels and candidates are individually assessed and appropriately leveled based upon their skills and experience
• 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
• 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
• Contribution: 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

Essential requirements and candidate background

• 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

Location, schedule and contract conditions

• Advertised location: India

Benefits mentioned by the employer

• 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

Pay and application dates

A verified salary figure is not established in this article. An online estimate for another Staff Engineer, DSPM vacancy is not an offer for reference 7981775; use the employer’s own pay disclosure and recruitment communication.

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How to apply to Netskope

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Open the official Netskope posting below and match the title and reference 7981775.

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Practical preparation: Java

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Relevant skills

• Java
• Kubernetes
• Docker
• AWS
• REST APIs
• APIs
• AI
• cybersecurity
• compliance