About Netskope
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.
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About the role
The Platform R&D organization builds new applications and enhancements to develop Netskopes security cloud infrastructure and networking, emphasizing software-defined networking, automation of provisioning and configuration, as well as resiliency and performance. The innovations originated within Platform R&D make new capabilities available to Netskopes Platform and Engineering teams, and contribute to the world class products we offer to our customers.
What s in it for you
As a Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) on Netskopes Platform Engineering (PE) team, you will apply your skills and experience to test and benchmark the applications and infrastructure that power Netskope s security cloud. This is an ideal role for candidates who have the desire to learn new technologies, concepts and architectures, the curiosity and desire to dig into interesting technical challenges, and the belief that good enough is not good enough.
What you will be doing
- Joining a team that owns several critical areas of the Netskope platform, including DNS, load balancing, and many proprietary software-defined networking applications.
- Gathering requirements for new projects and developing standard test plans for existing platform applications.
- Leading testing efforts for internal tooling and platform-focused product features in platform domains such as DNS, load balancing, network insights and optimization.
- Executing functional and non-functional testing to validate infrastructure and software performance and resiliency requirements.
- Coordinating with stakeholders across program and product management, as well as Engineering and other teams with the Platform organization.
- Automating tests to accelerate iterative release cycles and increase release confidence.
- Designing and implementing test automation frameworks and platforms in Python and Rust to increase levels of automation across all applications within Platform R&D.
- Creating feature documentation and SOPs for testing software and components owned by PE.
Required skills and experience
- 4+ years of experience working in a software organization in a Dev, QE, Ops, DevOps, SRE or similar role.
- Strong proficiency in Python and history of successfully leveraging coding skills to increase levels of test automation and improve testing efficiency.
- Familiarity with Rust programming languages and unit testing strongly preferred.
- Command of design fundamentals and best practices around test automation implementation and framework development.
- Working knowledge of networking fundamentals.
- Familiarity working with Linux CLI tools and Linux-based tech stacks.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Strong history of working proactively and independently to gather and define requirements, document test plans and execute testing within complex multi-team projects.
- Expertise in quality efforts around one or more of the following - DNS, load balancing, networking, internal tools.
Education
- Bachelors or equivalent required, Masters or equivalent strongly preferred.
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