Senior Rust Developers

About Zscaler

Zscaler accelerates digital transformation to ensure our customers can be more agile efficient resilient and secure. As an AI-forward enterprise we are constantly pushing the envelope leveraging the worlds largest security data lake to power our cloud-native Zero Trust Exchange platform. This innovation protects our 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 say impact over activity. We seek innovators who actively use AI to amplify their impact and who thrive in an environment where we leverage intelligent systems to stay ahead of evolving threats. 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 be part of the team thats helping to secure the AI age we invite you to bring your talents to Zscaler and help shape the future of cybersecurity.

We are looking for Senior Rust Developers for various teams across our Engineering Org. There is some flexibility regarding location however you must be based in the United States and preferably on the West Coast. Join us to build a new platform from the ground up that can scale hundreds of millions of users with high reliability and low latency. You will design and implement distributed system and core infrastructure components while collaborating closely with various stakeholders.

What youll do (Role Expectations)

• Design and build a low-latency high-throughput data forwarding plane using Rust leveraging its async/await model for efficient I/O and service-oriented infrastructure
• Develop distributed scalable systems with a focus on concurrency fault tolerance and messaging
• Implement and maintain gRPC-based APIs and services to integrate forwarding plane capabilities with control and orchestration layers
• Optimize system performance through profiling tools across kernel-space and user-space
• Engage in code reviews system design discussions technical documentation and mentoring junior engineers

Who You Are (Success Profile)

• You act like an owner fueling your bias for action with a passion for the mission and navigating seamlessly between high-level strategy and hands-on execution.
• You are a problem-solver who seeks out challenges and is energized by finding solutions to hard problems that deliver the biggest impact.
• You are customer-obsessed building deep empathy for internal and external customers and anchoring every decision in solving their real-world problems.
• You are driven by innovation and technical curiosity constantly looking for better more secure and scalable ways to accelerate transformation.
• You think at scale connecting your work to the larger company mission and building solutions that support a high-growth global organization.

What Were Looking for (Minimum Qualifications)

• Deep experience coding with Rust particularly in systems programming and async frameworks like Tokio or async-std
• Proven expertise in building resilient observable and horizontally scalable distributed systems
• A strong understanding of system-level programming including networking namespaces sockets and kernel-user space interaction
• Proficiency in container-based environments Git CI/CD workflows and performance instrumentation

What Will Make You Stand Out (Preferred Qualifications)

• Experience with systems languages like C/C or Go particularly in performance-critical environments
• Familiarity with Linux networking stacks kernel-space technologies such as eBPF or DPDK and Kubernetes networking or service meshes
• Hands-on experience with gRPC Protobufs and L2L4 networking protocols including TCP/IP QUIC or routing encapsulations

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