Senior Manager, Software Development Engineering

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.

Were looking for a Senior Manager Software Development Engineering to join our ZTC team. This is a hybrid role reporting in the San Jose CA office 3 days a week. Reporting to the Sr. Director of Software Engineering youll be responsible for:

• Leading end-to-end development test deploy and monitor of services in our ZScaler Cloud Connector ZT Gateway and ZScaler Microsegmentation clouds
• Contributing to the ZTC (Zero Trust for Cloud) leadership team for company level processes and initiatives
• Working closely with cross-functional teams to manage changing priorities ensure timelines support escalations and enhance collaboration between local and remote team
• Leading by example offer hands-on involvement mentor engineers to grow their skills and oversee critical tasks like code reviews bug triaging and build processes
• Maintaining a customer-first mindset by participating in escalations demos beta trials and delivering a product centered around an exceptional customer experience

What Were Looking For (Minimum Qualifications)

• 15 years of software development experience with at least 5 years of focus in building distributed solutions for software as a Service platform for cloud scale and performance
• Strong knowledge of networking protocols and services - DNS HTTP TCP/IP SSL/TLS and knowledge of Firewall policy enforcement and traffic forwarding rules
• Good experience in working with AWS/Azure/GCP networking namely - transit gateway IGW NATGW NACL security groups. GWLB ILB Route53 Azure DNS
• Experience in agile collaboration models (e.g. Kanban/Scrum) and Jira
• Track record of hiring grooming and retaining top talent

What Will Make You Stand Out (Preferred Qualifications)

• Strong distributed systems and SaaS development experience
• Strong knowledge of Firewalls and Networking protocols
• In depth knowledge of one of the CSPs like AWS Azure or GCP.

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