4 hours ago
Base Salary
$152k - $190k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead the architecture, design, and delivery of large-scale control-plane and platform services.
- Drive cross-team technical initiatives, align stakeholders, and ensure high-quality delivery against engineering and business priorities.
- Identify and resolve bottlenecks, reliability risks, and architectural gaps across distributed systems.
- Improve system performance, observability, reliability, and long-term maintainability.
- Set technical standards through design reviews, code reviews, engineering practices, and mentorship of senior engineers.
- Evaluate and apply Agentic AI and AI-assisted engineering workflows to improve developer productivity and product delivery.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of software engineering experience, including significant experience designing and building large-scale distributed systems and backend platform services.
- Deep expertise in system design, microservices architecture, API design, data modeling, and highly available fault-tolerant production services.
- Strong proficiency in one or more of Java, Go, or Python.
- Experience leading complex technical initiatives across multiple teams and influencing architectural and engineering direction.
- Strong understanding of cloud-native technologies, observability, reliability engineering, and secure software development practices.
- Curiosity about AI tools and a demonstrated history of integrating new technologies into engineering workflows.
- Preferred: experience with AI-assisted engineering, developer copilots, intelligent automation, AI-assisted incident analysis, or ML/LLM-powered platform capabilities.
- Preferred: experience building control-plane, policy, identity, security, or other mission-critical platform systems in SaaS or cybersecurity environments, including Kubernetes, PAM, or IGA.
- Preferred: experience mentoring senior engineers and serving as a recognized technical leader across an organization.
Benefits
- Various health plans, vacation and sick time off plans, parental leave, retirement options, education reimbursement, and in-office perks.
- Santa Clara, California role with a hybrid working model; additional hybrid-work details are provided by the company.
- Full-time position.
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About Zscaler
Zscaler builds a cloud-delivered zero trust security platform that replaces traditional network security appliances for enterprises and public-sector organizations. Its Zero Trust Exchange provides secure web gateway, zero trust access, CASB, and cloud firewall services, sold as subscriptions and delivered across 160+ global data centers. Founded in 2007 and headquartered in San Jose, it is a public company on NASDAQ (ZS) serving thousands of customers worldwide.