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Zscaler is seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer to join its Engineering team in Hyderabad. You will work on the world's largest cloud security platform, contributing to the multitenant architecture that powers the Zero Trust Exchange platform used by thousands of customers globally. This hybrid role reports to the Director of Software Engineering.
In this position, you will understand how to build and operate high-scale systems, provide service and product-wide architectural guidance, and drive impactful technical decisions. You will establish and enforce best practices for coding, testing, observability, and CI/CD pipelines to maintain high-quality, production-ready services. You will drive cross-team collaboration and lead initiatives in performance optimization, reliability improvements, and adoption of new technologies and tools to accelerate feature velocity.
Zscaler is building an AI-native enterprise where human potential is amplified by machine intelligence to solve the world's hardest security challenges. The company operates the world's largest in-line cloud security platform, distributed across 200+ public data centers globally and thousands of private sites at the edge.
You should thrive in ambiguity and be comfortable building the path as you walk it. You act like an owner with a passion for the mission and a bias for action. You are a problem-solver who loves running towards challenges and is laser-focused on finding solutions. You are a high-trust collaborator, ambitious for the team, and embrace a challenge culture with ongoing feedback. You are a learner with a true growth mindset, obsessed with your own development.
REQUIREMENTS:
- Foundational understanding of AI/ML technologies and experience leveraging, securing, or positioning AI-driven solutions; experience with agentic AI systems and orchestration workflows
- 2+ years of experience in Java coding in a highly distributed and enterprise-scale environment
- Working knowledge of cloud infrastructure services on AWS or Azure
- Strong experience with distributed systems and microservices architecture
- Strong database knowledge of SQL constructs and data modeling
- Strong experience with Identity governance and administration, Access Management
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- Experience leveraging AI coding assistants, automated code review tooling, or LLM-assisted development workflows
- Experience building reliable data tiers using Postgres, Redis, Terraform, Ansible, graph databases like Neo4j or AWS Neptune, and developing GraphQL APIs
- Knowledge of identity and access management systems (Okta, SAML, OAuth), test automation, Python programming, and designing fault-tolerant distributed systems for networking or cloud security products
