Sr. Manager, Engineering, Data Lineage

About Netskope

Today, there's more data and users outside the enterprise than inside, causing the network perimeter as we know it to dissolve. We realized a new perimeter was needed, one that is built in the cloud and follows and protects data wherever it goes, so we started Netskope to redefine Cloud, Network and Data Security. 

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.  Visit us at Netskope Careers. Please follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter@Netskope.

About the role

The Netskope Data Security team provides unrivaled visibility and real-time protection, ensuring customer data is secured wherever it resides. As a Senior Engineering Manager, you will lead the Data Lineage team—the architects of a high-performance platform that traces the movement and transformation of data across cloud applications, endpoints, and on-premises systems. This product is defined by high-throughput streaming, large-scale database optimization, and sophisticated graph traversal logic that converts raw event streams into coherent, explainable provenance chains.

This role requires an entrepreneurial leader with a passion for innovation and a commitment to nurturing both engineering talent and product vision. You will act as both a technical lead and a product owner, partnering across the organization to align engineering milestones with strategic business objectives. You will define the roadmap, translate complex challenges into executable plans, and mentor a high-performing team while setting the long-term architectural direction.

What you will be doing

• Product Strategy & Roadmap: Collaborate with Product Managers to co-own the product vision and roadmap. Prioritize the backlog by balancing new feature development with performance improvements, scalability investments, and architectural health.
• Technical Stewardship: Set the architectural vision for a high-throughput, multi-tenant platform. Guide the team's approach to streaming ingestion, distributed database optimization (PostgreSQL), and complex graph traversal algorithms.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with Product Managers, SRE, and adjacent engineering teams to align on requirements and dependencies. Translate deep technical trade-offs into clear, decision-ready recommendations for leadership and stakeholders.
• Operational Excellence: Define and track Service Level Objectives (SLOs), lead incident response and root-cause analysis, and drive reliability improvements for a production-critical system.

Required skills & experience

• Engineering Leadership: 10+ years of software engineering experience, including 3+ years leading engineering teams. Proven track record in hiring, performance management, and driving technical roadmaps.
• Product leadership: Track record of collaborating with product managers to define scope, prioritize backlogs, and ship customer-facing outcomes.
• Strategic communication: Ability to bridge engineering, product, and leadership audiences, translating complex technical trade-offs into decision-ready recommendations.
• Bias for action: Experience operating in ambiguous environments, shaping roadmaps when requirements are incomplete, and navigating evolving problem spaces.
• Distributed Systems: Demonstrated experience owning and scaling high-throughput, distributed streaming systems (e.g., Kafka) in production environments.
• System Architecture: Expertise in designing resilient, scalable architectures that mitigate common production failure modes. Proficient in implementing robust design patterns like backpressure and circuit breaking to ensure reliability, with the technical depth to influence critical design decisions.
• Database Architecture: Demonstrated experience guiding teams through database-heavy platform design. Expertise in evaluating PostgreSQL (or equivalent) trade-offs, ensuring sound decisions regarding data modeling, sharding, and performance optimization for large-scale datasets.
• Graph Modeling: Experience providing architectural oversight for complex, relationship-heavy data systems. Skilled in coaching teams on modeling trade-offs and graph traversal strategies aligned with product performance and scalability.
• Operational Excellence: Proven track record in fostering a culture of operational rigor. Experience defining reliability strategies and establishing meaningful SLOs.
• Bonus Points: Deep experience with the end-to-end data lineage lifecycle, including telemetry collection, event unification, schema standardization, cryptographic fingerprinting, heuristic-based correlation, and graph-based modeling.
• Education: BSCS or equivalent required; MSCS or equivalent strongly preferred.

Compensation: 

At Netskope, salary is one component of our competitive total rewards package. The salary range for this position is as listed below. This is a national range. For purposes of complying with applicable laws, the range applies to candidates in California, Colorado, Illinois, Maryland, New York, Washington, and other states.

The successful candidate’s starting pay will also be determined based on job-related skills, experience, qualifications, location, and market conditions. 

For all sales roles, the posted salary range is the On Target Earnings (OTE) range for the role, which is the sum of base salary and target commission amount at 100% goal achievement.

In addition to salary, candidates may be eligible for other forms of compensation such as participation in a bonus plan (for non-sales roles) and a stock award program. Candidates may also be eligible for a comprehensive health plan and other benefits that can be reviewed at Netskope Benefits site. 

Salary Range$182,500—$260,500 USD

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