Principal Engineer

Principal Engineer

Experience:

Salary :

Preferred Notice Period

Shift

Opportunity Type:

Placement Type:

(*Note: This is a requirement for one of Uplers' Clients)

Must have skills required :

gRPC AND Protocol Buffers OR Avro AND storage systems

Netskope (One of Uplers' Clients) is Looking for:

Principal Engineer who is passionate about their work, eager to learn and grow, and who is committed to delivering exceptional results. If you are a team player, with a positive attitude and a desire to make a difference, then we want to hear from you.

Role Overview Description

About the role:

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

The Data Platform team is uniquely positioned at the intersection of security, big data and cloud computing. We are responsible for providing ultra low-latency access to global security insights and intelligence data to our customers, and enabling them to act in near real-time. We’re looking for a seasoned engineer to help us build next-generation data pipelines that provide near real-time ingestion of security insights and intelligence data using cloud and open source data technologies.

What's in it for you

• You will be part of a growing team of renowned industry experts in the exciting space of Data and Cloud Analytics
• Your contributions will have a major impact on our global customer-base and across the industry through our market-leading products
• You will solve complex, interesting challenges, and improve the depth and breadth of your technical and business skills.
• What you will be doing
• Building next generation data pipeline for near real-time ingestion of security insights and intelligence data
• Partnering with industry experts in security and big data, product and engineering teams to conceptualize, design and build innovative solutions for hard problems on behalf of our customers.
• Evaluating open source technologies to find the best fit for our needs and also contributing to some of them!
• Helping other teams architect their systems on top of the data platform and influencing their architecture.

Required skills and experience

• Expertise in architecture and design of highly scalable, efficient and fault-tolerant data pipelines for near real-time and real-time processing
• Strong diagnostic and problem-solving skills with a demonstrated ability to invent and simplify complex problems into elegant solutions.
• Extensive experience designing high-throughput, low-latency data services using gRPC streaming and performance optimizations
• Solid grasp of serialization formats (e.g., Protocol Buffers, Avro), network protocols (e.g., TCP/IP, HTTP/2), and security considerations (e.g., TLS, authentication, authorization) in distributed environments.
• Deep understanding of distributed object storage systems like S3, GCS etc, including their architectures, consistency models, and scaling properties.
• Deep understanding of data formats like Parquet, Iceberg etc, optimized partitioning, sorting, compression, and read performance.
• Expert level proficiency in Golang, Java, or similar languages with strong understanding of concurrency, distributed computing and system-level optimizations
• Cloud-native data infrastructure experience with AWS, GCP etc is a huge plus
• Proven ability to influence technical direction and communicate with clarity.
• Willingness to work with a globally distributed team in different time zones.

Education

BSCS or equivalent required, MSCS or equivalent strongly preferred

How to apply for this opportunity:

Easy 3-Step Process:

2. Upload updated Resume & Complete the Screening Form

3. Increase your chances to get shortlisted & meet the client for the Interview!

About Our Client:

Netskope, a global SASE leader, helps organizations apply zero trust principles and AI/ML innovations to protect data and defend against cyber threats. Fast and easy to use, the Netskope platform provides optimized access and real-time security for people, devices, and data anywhere they go.

About Uplers:

Our goal is to make hiring and getting hired reliable, simple, and fast. Our role will be to help all our talents find and apply for relevant product and engineering job opportunities and progress in their career.

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