Senior Manager, Software Development Engineering

About Zscaler

Serving thousands of enterprise customers around the world including 40% of Fortune 500 companies Zscaler (NASDAQ: ZS) 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 worlds 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 worlds 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 todays 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.

The Zero Trust Exchange team seeks a Sr. Manager of Software Engineering to oversee Identity and Access control infrastructure while leading a dynamic team advancing Zero Trust technology and flagship cloud security products. Manage development quality and collaborate globally with architects product managers developers and engineers for successful production delivery.

This role will be reporting to the Sr. Director Engineering and youll be responsible for:

• Promoting the product vision internally and externally as the representative of the company product and team at all levels
• Collaborating with product management to develop roadmaps identify gaps and implement changes for improved outcomes
• Designing solutions and implement with cloud reliability / availability / scalability / security in mind
• Working with teams and experts to ensure project requirements are met and delivered efficiently
• Contributing to budget planning by assessing resource needs hardware requirements metrics and costs for cloud services

What Were Looking for (Minimum Qualifications)

• Hold a Bachelors degree in Computer Science with 13 years of experience in development enterprise services networking and security across large organizations and startups
• Experienced in building control plane systems on globally distributed databases and skilled in authentication and authorization mechanisms like SAML OAUTH LDAP and SCIM
• Skilled in integrating software systems using distributed message queues like RabbitMQ/Kafka and distributed caches like Redis/Memcached
• Proficient in distributed systems and data replication protocols like Paxos variants with expertise in databases like DynamoDB Cassandra and Google Spanner
• Experienced with public cloud providers like AWS Azure and GCP with skills in bootstrapping cloud entities and building service mesh

What Will Make You Stand Out (Preferred Qualifications)

• Skilled in using Kubernetes for orchestrating containerized applications and managing microservices architecture

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