Sr. Manager, Engineering, Data Lineage

About this role

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 streami