Staff / Sr. Staff Engineer, AI Gateway

Join the Future of Security at Netskope Netskope (NASDAQ: NTSK) is a leader in modern security and networking for the cloud and AI era. We secure and accelerate cloud, data, and AI in real time, everywhere. Thousands of customers, including more than 30 of the Fortune 100, trust the Netskope One platform, its Zero Trust Engine, and the powerful NewEdge network to gain full visibility and control without performance trade-offs. At Netskope, our technology is driven by our greatest strength: our people. We believe that belonging powers innovation, and success is both personal and organizational. We embrace differences in gender, ethnicity, beliefs, ability, and identity, creating an environment where every voice is heard and respected. We empower our employees to bring their authentic selves to work, grow their careers through continuous education and mentorship, and lead with transparency and curiosity. Join a team where you belong, where you are encouraged to be an entrepreneur, and where together, we continue to redefine the landscape of security. Visit Careers at Netskope to learn more. Follow us on LinkedIn and Instagram. Please note, this team is hiring across all levels and candidates are individually assessed and appropriately leveled based upon their skills and experience. About the Role Netskope AI Gateway helps global enterprises securely adopt, scale, and govern Generative AI. We are seeking a Staff / Sr. Staff Software Engineer to architect, build, and scale the core systems powering our AI Gateway product and its supporting microservices across SaaS and on-prem/hybrid environments. Based in Taiwan, you will be a technical anchor for our core development team. This is a hands-on, high-impact individual contributor role focused on building highly scalable backend systems, with real ownership: the systems assigned to you are yours to design, build, and defend — depth matters more than volume. You will operate at the intersection of deep distributed systems engineering and cutting-edge AI technology. We are looking for an engineering leader who leverages AI to accelerate their workflows, but possesses the rigorous, production-grade coding skills required to architect complex systems, ensure enterprise-grade security, and validate AI-generated code. What You Will Be Doing • Core Backend Development: Architect, build, and scale our core AI Gateway solutions, backend services, and high-throughput APIs. You will focus on writing highly concurrent, robust, and maintainable software, primarily in Golang. • Command AI-Driven Engineering: Integrate AI and agent-based tooling (e.g., Copilots, code generators) into your daily development workflow to accelerate scaffolding, boilerplate, and hypothesis generation. Crucially, you will act as the gatekeeper: you must possess the deep software engineering expertise to audit AI-generated code, ensure architectural soundness, and reject code that introduces technical debt or security flaws. • Design for Scale and Resilience: Build distributed systems capable of handling immense data payloads, streaming LLM responses (Server-Sent Events), and complex proxy routing without introducing unacceptable latency. • Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner directly with global engineering, AI researchers, and product teams. Translate ambitious AI features into scalable, maintainable software architectures. Raise system design considerations before a single line of feature code is written. • Push Engineering Excellence: Drive the technical culture of the Taiwan team through architectural reviews, code reviews, and mentorship. Advocate for best practices in modern, AI-augmented software development, security, and scalable system design. • Deep Systems Debugging: While not primarily an incident support role, you will be the ultimate escalation point for the hardest systemic development roadblocks. Trace complex issues across asynchronous microservices, Kubernetes networking layers, and TLS/Proxy protocols to architect permanent structural fixes. • Share Production Ownership: Own what you ship — participate in the team's shared on-call rotation, monitor the health of your services, and turn recurring incidents into structural fixes. What Success Looks Like • Architectural Delivery: You translate ambiguous product requirements into clean, scalable, and secure Golang microservices that handle high throughput and streaming responses with minimal latency. • AI-Augmented Technical Rigor: You consistently accelerate your output using AI coding tools, but the code you merge is rigorously vetted, secure, and architecturally sound, ensuring all hallucinations are caught. • Elevating Engineering Standards: The technical excellence of the Taiwan team rises because of your presence. Your design documents, code reviews, and mentorship prevent systemic debt before feature code is written. • Definitive Problem Solving: When complex cross-boundary roadblocks occur, such as proxy bottlenecks or async race conditions, you deliver definitive root causes and permanent structural fixes. • Systemic Resilience: The AI Gateway maintains high availability and strict security enforcement while gracefully handling the evolution of major LLM provider APIs and scaling customer traffic. Required Skills and Experience • Engineering Experience: 8-10+ years in software engineering, with at least 5+ years deeply focused on backend development, cloud-native services, and distributed systems. • Production-Grade Coding: Exceptional software engineering skills in Golang (highly preferred) or Python. You build modular libraries, reliable microservices, and scalable frameworks from scratch. You do not just prompt; you write software. • AI-Assisted Workflow Proficiency: Demonstrated experience using advanced LLM-based coding agents in real engineering work. You understand where AI accelerates development and where it introduces technical debt or hallucinations, and you have a