Sr. Staff Software Development Engineer

Sr. Staff Software Development Engineer

Serving thousands of enterprise customers around the world including 45% of Fortune 500 companies, Zscaler was founded in 2007 with a mission to make the cloud a safe place to do business and a more enjoyable experience for enterprise users. As the operator of the world's largest security cloud, Zscaler accelerates digital transformation so enterprises can be more agile, efficient, resilient, and secure. The pioneering, AI-powered Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange™ platform, which is found in our SASE and SSE offerings, protects thousands of enterprise customers from cyberattacks and data loss by securely connecting users, devices, and applications in any location.

Named a Best Workplace in Technology by Fortune and others, Zscaler fosters an inclusive and supportive culture that is home to some of the brightest minds in the industry. If you thrive in an environment that is fast-paced and collaborative, and you are passionate about building and innovating for the greater good, come make your next move with Zscaler.

Our Engineering team built the world's largest cloud security platform from the ground up, and we keep building. With more than 100 patents and big plans for enhancing services and increasing our global footprint, the team has made us and our multitenant architecture today's cloud security leader, with more than 15 million users in 185 countries. Bring your vision and passion to our team of cloud architects, software engineers, security experts, and more who are enabling organizations worldwide to harness speed and agility with a cloud-first strategy.

We're looking for a Sr. Staff Software Development Engineer to join our engineering team. This is a hybrid role, reporting in the Bangalore office 3 days a week. Reporting to the Senior Director, Engineering, you'll be responsible for:

• Partnering with Product Management to drive detailed product requirements
• Defining software design specifications and implementing bug free code using test driven methodology
• Looking for opportunities to refactor existing code in the interests of maintainability and reusability
• Collaborating closely with other cross functional engineering teams (security, UI, platform, analytics and quality assurance)
• Diagnosing complex customer issues and take ownership of issue resolution

What We're Looking for (Minimum Qualifications)

• 8+ years of software development experience in building large-scale applications using Python or Golang
• Hands-on experience with popular public cloud services infrastructure offerings such as AWS, GCP, Azure
• Good knowledge with cloud networking namely - transit gateway, IGW, NATGW, NACL, security groups, GWLB, ILB, Route53, Azure DNS
• Strong software design, profiling, and verification skills and exposure to optimizing for scale and performance
• Proficiency in using debugging tools such as GDB debuggers and logic analyzers

What Will Make You Stand Out (Preferred Qualifications)

• Strong distributed systems and SaaS development experience
• Strong knowledge of Firewalls and Networking protocols
• Familiarity with Identity management and authentication