Base Salary
$152k - $190k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define technical direction and architecture for major product areas.
- Lead high-impact initiatives spanning multiple teams and system boundaries.
- Translate ambiguous product and security challenges into executable engineering strategies.
- Establish standards for secure, reliable, scalable, and maintainable systems.
- Identify systemic risks, architectural gaps, and long-term growth investments.
- Contribute hands-on through coding, prototyping, design reviews, and complex debugging.
Requirements
- 5+ years of software engineering experience, including technical leadership across complex production systems.
- Strong proficiency in Go, Rust, and Python, with deep expertise in systems engineering, security engineering, and backend platforms.
- Experience architecting and evolving platforms spanning multiple teams or product areas.
- Ability to remain hands-on with coding, prototyping, design review, and complex debugging.
- Deep understanding of concurrency, networking, storage, APIs, data systems, and cloud infrastructure on AWS, GCP, or Azure.
- Active exploration and integration of AI tools to improve workflows and problem-solving.
- Preferred experience building enterprise security, endpoint, cloud, or infrastructure products.
- Preferred familiarity with AI/ML systems, analytics platforms, AI applications, or AI security.
- Preferred experience helping a startup or high-growth product evolve into a scalable engineering organization.
Benefits
- Hybrid role based in San Jose, CA
- Various health plans
- Vacation and sick time off plans
- Parental leave options
- Retirement options
- Education reimbursement
- In-office perks
About Zscaler
Zscaler (NASDAQ: ZS) is a pioneer and global leader in zero trust security. The world’s largest businesses, critical infrastructure organizations, and government agencies rely on Zscaler to secure users, branches, applications, data & devices, and to accelerate digital transformation initiatives. Distributed across 160+ data centers globally, the Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange™ platform combined with advanced AI combats billions of cyber threats and policy violations every day and unlocks productivity gains for modern enterprises by reducing costs and complexity. Stay Connected: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/zscaler Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/zscaler Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Zscaler/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/zscalerinc/