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Zscaler is seeking a Staff Software Development Engineer to join its Engineering team in Bangalore or Hyderabad. You will work on the world's largest cloud security platform, built on a multitenant architecture serving thousands of customers globally. This is a hybrid role reporting to the Senior Manager of Software Engineering.
In this position, you will provide service and product-wide architectural guidance and drive impactful technical decisions across the organization. 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. You will also understand how to build and operate high-scale systems.
Zscaler is building an AI-native enterprise where human potential is amplified by machine intelligence to solve security challenges. The company operates the world's largest in-line cloud security platform, distributed across 160+ public exchanges globally and thousands of private exchanges at the edge, using a SASE-based Zero Trust Exchange architecture.
The ideal candidate thrives in ambiguity and is comfortable building solutions in dynamic environments. You act like an owner with a bias for action and genuine care for outcomes. You are a problem-solver who loves running toward challenges to find solutions that deliver impact. You are a high-trust collaborator, ambitious for the team, and embrace a challenge culture with ongoing feedback. You have a true growth mindset and are 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
- 5+ years of experience in Java/Go 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 to optimize software architecture and accelerate delivery cycles
- Experience building reliable data tiers using Postgres, Redis, Terraform, Ansible, graph databases like Neo4j or AWS Neptune, and developing GraphQL APIs
- Deep 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
