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Zscaler is an AI-forward enterprise security company building cloud-native Zero Trust Exchange platform that protects organizations from cyberattacks and data loss. The company leverages the world's largest security data lake to securely connect users, devices, and applications across any location.
You will join as a Senior Software Development Engineer in a hybrid role based in Bangalore, reporting to the Director of Software Engineering. This is a hands-on technical leadership position focused on building security products that enable organizations to adopt AI applications and agents safely and at scale.
Key responsibilities include:
- Lead design and delivery of major product capabilities, owning projects end-to-end from problem definition through implementation, rollout, and production operation
- Design secure, reliable, and scalable systems with clearly defined trust boundaries, balancing security, privacy, performance, reliability, and usability
- Lead complex investigations while improving engineering practices, testing, and operational readiness
- Mentor engineers and provide technical direction through design and code reviews
- Partner with product and research teams to contribute to technical strategy and longer-term architecture
You should have 3-4 years of software engineering experience with demonstrated ownership of complex production systems and ability to lead technically ambiguous, cross-functional projects. Deep expertise required in systems engineering, distributed systems, security engineering, backend platforms, or endpoint software, with strong proficiency in Go, Rust, and Python. Experience designing systems with security, privacy, and reliability requirements is essential, along with understanding of concurrency, networking, storage, APIs, and operational observability. Cloud infrastructure management experience on AWS, GCP, or Azure is required.
Preferred qualifications include experience building security, cloud, or enterprise software (including endpoint software for Windows, macOS, Linux), familiarity with AI applications/agents/developer platforms/AI security, and experience with security policy, detection, analysis, or software supply-chain systems.
Zscaler values impact over activity, constructive debate, customer obsession, collaboration, ownership, and accountability. The company seeks innovators who actively use AI to amplify impact and thrive in environments leveraging intelligent systems to stay ahead of evolving threats.
