Sr. Software Engineer, API Gateway - Netskope Taiwan｜Meet.jobs

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 Netskope API Gateway provides our customers with high performance access to Netskope APIs through a single, unified gateway. 

What’s in it for you

As a member of the API Gateway team, you will collaborate with backend service teams and the frontend team to expand Netskope’s new REST API platform. Your work will span the frontend and the web application backend, and you will work closely with our backend service teams on Machine Learning, Threat, DLP, IaaS, APIs and other cutting edge technologies as we continue to expand the gateway and its capabilities.

What you will be doing

• Designing and developing our highly scalable, high-volume, low-latency, multi-tenant API gateway.
• Participating in developing our next-generation full stack solutions while investigating alternative technologies. 
• Taking ownership of projects and collaborating with cross-functional product management, development and quality assurance teams in a fast paced environment. 
• Working with DevOps and Technical Support teams to investigate and resolve critical customer defects.
• Keeping abreast of the latest technologies and web methodologies, and helping to identify those that should be integrated into our products and development efforts in the future.

Required skills and experience

• 5-8 years of industry experience developing large scale web based enterprise applications.
• Expertise in Typescript and Javascript.
• Expertise in Nginx and Kong Gateway setup and configuration.
• Experience with NodeJS, Express.
• Strong experience in scripting languages such as Python (bonus points for Lua).
• Experience with strongly-typed compiled languages such as Go / Swift / Java.
• Proficiency with relational databases such as PostgreSQL, MySQL.
• Proficiency with NoSQL databases such as MongoDB, Cassandra, Redis, or Memcached.
• Experience with containerization and container orchestration such as Docker, Kubernetes.
• Experience with package management such as Helm, NPM, dpkg.
• Experience with Jenkins, CircleCI, or Travis CI to develop and troubleshoot CICD pipelines.
• Experience building highly performant microservices.
• Experience with RESTful API design, HTTP concepts, API security.
• Experience with unit testing tools like Jest, Jasmine.
• Knowledge of secure web development practices.
• Working knowledge of git or other version control tools.
• Bonus points for
• Experience with authentication standards (OAuth, OpenID Connect, SAML, etc.)
• Experience with cloud computing platforms and concepts such as IaaS, PaaS, AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud 
• Knowledge of API management concepts

Education

• BSCS or equivalent required, MSCS or equivalent strongly preferred