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.

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.

Were looking for a Sr Staff Software Development Engineer to join our ZPA Control Plane team. This is a hybrid role reporting in the Mohali office 3 days a week. Reporting to the Director of Software Engineering youll be responsible for:

• Understanding how to build and operate high scale systems
• Providing service and product wide architectural guidance and drive impactful technical decisions
• Guiding senior and mid-level engineers through design reviews code reviews and hands-on mentoring to raise the overall technical bar
• Establishing and enforcing best practices for coding testing observability and CI/CD pipelines to maintain high-quality production-ready services
• Driving Cross-Team Collaboration & Lead initiatives in performance optimization reliability improvements and adoption of new technologies/tools to accelerate feature velocity

What Were Looking for (Minimum Qualifications)

• 8 years of experience in Java coding in a highly distributed and enterprise-scale environment
• Experience being oncall and dealing with cloud incidents and writing RCAs
• Working knowledge of cloud infrastructure services on AWS/Azure
• Great mentor and coach
• Bachelor Degree/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 & web service frameworks
• Experiences building reliable and extensible data tiers for large scale web services (Postgres and Redis)
• Experience with identity and access management systems like Okta SAML protocols and security services Knowledge of OAuth

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