Sr Staff Software Development Engineer

About Zscaler

Zscaler accelerates digital transformation so our customers can be more agile efficient resilient and secure. Our cloud native Zero Trust Exchange platform protects thousands of customers from cyberattacks and data loss by securely connecting users devices and applications in any location.

Here impact in your role matters more than title and trust is built on results. We believe in transparency and value constructive honest debatewere focused on getting to the best ideas faster. We build high-performing teams that can make an impact quickly and with high quality. To do this we are building a culture of execution centered on customer obsession collaboration ownership and accountability.

We value high-impact high-accountability with a sense of urgency where youre enabled to do your best work and embrace your potential. If youre driven by purpose thrive on solving complex challenges and want to make a positive difference on a global scale we invite you to bring your talents to Zscaler and help shape the future of cybersecurity.

Role

We are looking for a Sr Staff Software Development Engineer to join our ZPA Control Plane team. This is a hybrid role based in Mohali (onsite 3 days a week) reporting to the Director of Software Engineering. You will join the Engineering team that built the worlds largest cloud security platform from the ground up. As a leader in our multitenant architecture you will bring your vision and passion to help organizations worldwide harness speed and agility with a cloud-first strategy.

What youll do (Role Expectations)

• Understand how to build and operate high scale systems

• Provide service and product wide architectural guidance and drive impactful technical decisions

• Guide senior and mid-level engineers through design reviews code reviews and hands-on mentoring to raise the overall technical bar

• 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

Who You Are (Success Profile)

• You thrive in ambiguity. Youre comfortable building the path as you walk it. You thrive in a dynamic environment seeing ambiguity not as a hindrance but as the raw material to build something meaningful.

• You act like an owner. Your passion for the mission fuels your bias for action. You operate with integrity because you genuinely care about the outcome. True ownership involves leveraging dynamic range: the ability to navigate seamlessly between high-level strategy and hands-on execution.

• You are a problem-solver. You love running towards the challenges because you are laser-focused on finding the solution knowing that solving the hard problems delivers the biggest impact.

• You are a high-trust collaborator. You are ambitious for the team not just yourself. You embrace our challenge culture by giving and receiving ongoing feedbackknowing that candor delivered with clarity and respect is the truest form of teamwork and the fastest way to earn trust.

• You are a learner. You have a true growth mindset and are obsessed with your own development actively seeking feedback to become a better partner and a stronger teammate. You love what you do and you do it with purpose.

What Were Looking for (Minimum Qualifications)

• 8 years of experience in Java coding in a highly distributed and enterprise-scale environment

• Experience being on-call and dealing with cloud incidents and writing RCAs

• Working knowledge of cloud infrastructure services on AWS or Azure

• Demonstrated excellence as a mentor and coach

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience

What Will Make You Stand Out (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

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