Senior Staff / Principal Software Engineer

Our Engineering team built the world's 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 today's 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.

We want you to be our colleague in the Core Team, part of the Cloud Browser Isolation product. Our purpose is to explore new ways of making browser isolation user experience one of the best in the market and, why not, the best.

We are a distributed team that works fast and lives on the cutting edge of backend, frontend and infrastructure software engineering.

We favour open-source reuse but we are not afraid of building stuff ourselves where it makes sense..

This role may interface with customers, subject matter experts, technical experts, developers and QA engineers located globally and in different time zones.

The Staff /Principal Software Engineer will report to the Senior Engineering Manager.

Zscaler is looking for a seasoned and agile software engineer that has a unique combination of skills. The ideal candidate will play a key role in all phases of the product development cycle, from definition, design, through implementation, test, release and monitor of components of Browser Isolation Platform, Core team.

This is an excellent opportunity to join a small, dynamic team that is working on cutting edge Browser Isolation technology to evolve our current cloud security flagship products: ZIA and ZPA., you'll be responsible for:

• Complete ownership of multiple components definition, design, implementation, testing, delivery and monitor, according to the team's responsibilities.
• Analyze product requirements and translating into a feasible technical solution.
• Design highly available and scalable solutions with security in mind for public cloud applications.
• Write correct, maintainable, portable, testable, secure and reliable code of our current components and future components.
• Write unit / integration / e2e / performance / resilience tests where it makes sense and integrate them in our CI/CD flow.
• Build quick MVPs / POCs to validate technical solutions.
• Act as a mentor and a leader to all (especially junior) team members.

Location : Bangalore/Hyderabad/Mohali

What We're Looking for

• Great communication and interpersonal skills
• 10+ years of experience in software engineering
• 4+ years of modern C++ (C++ 11 or later)
• 3+ years of Chromium or WebKit development experience
• 3+ years of Linux experience
• Knowledge of one or more of the following programming languages:JavaScript
• Python
• Golang
• Rust
• Exposure to Docker and Kubernetes in a production environment
• Ability to troubleshoot complex systems
• Build systems, Continuous Integration (Jenkins or similar)
• Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms, systems design and programming principles
• A interest in security and performance
• Comfortable with scoping effort and estimating development tasks
• Be Stay informed about relevant technology trends and developments

What Will Make You Stand Out

• Experience dealing with low latency networking
• Experience working with low level networking protocols (TCP, UDP or custom protocols) or known or custom protocols
• Experience with cloud deployments (AWS, GCP or Azure)
• Web technologies such as WebAudio, WebGL, WebAssembly

#LI-MS6

At Zscaler, we believe that diversity drives innovation, productivity, and success. We are looking for individuals from all backgrounds and identities to join our team and contribute to our mission to make doing business seamless and secure. We are guided by these principles as we create a representative and impactful team, and a culture where everyone belongs. For more information on our commitments to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging, visit the Corporate Responsibility page of our website.

Our Benefits program is one of the most important ways we support our employees. Zscaler proudly offers comprehensive and inclusive benefits to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families throughout their life stages, including:

• Various health plans
• A flexible time off policy
• Parental leave options
• Retirement options
• Education reimbursement
• In-office perks, and more!