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Zscaler is seeking a Staff Software Development Engineer to join its Engineering team in Hyderabad. This is a hybrid role reporting to the Senior Director of Software Engineering.
You will work on the world's largest cloud security platform, the Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange, which protects thousands of customers from cyberattacks and data loss by securely connecting users, devices, and applications. The platform is distributed across 160+ public exchanges globally and thousands of private exchanges at the edge.
In this role, you will:
- Understand how to build and operate high-scale systems
- Provide service and product-wide architectural guidance and drive impactful technical decisions
- Establish and enforce best practices for coding, testing, observability, and CI/CD pipelines to maintain high-quality, production-ready services
- Drive cross-team collaboration and lead initiatives in performance optimization, reliability improvements, and adoption of new technologies/tools to accelerate feature velocity
You should thrive in ambiguity, act like an owner with commitment to the mission, be a problem-solver who runs toward hard challenges, be a high-trust collaborator focused on team success, and possess a relentless growth mindset.
Zscaler is committed to building an AI-native enterprise where human potential is amplified by machine intelligence to solve the world's hardest security challenges.
REQUIREMENTS:
Minimum Qualifications:
- Demonstrated curiosity and active exploration of AI tools, with a proven history of integrating new technologies to enhance daily workflows and augment problem-solving
- 5+ years of experience in Java coding in a highly distributed and enterprise-scale environment with experience in Kafka, Druid, and ElasticSearch
- Experience being on-call and dealing with cloud incidents and writing RCAs (Root Cause Analyses)
- Working knowledge of cloud infrastructure services on AWS or Azure
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience building full CI/CD systems leveraging Kubernetes and web service frameworks
- Experience building reliable and extensible data tiers for large-scale web services using Postgres and Redis
- Experience with identity and access management systems like Okta, SAML protocols, and security services knowledge of OAuth
