10 hours ago
Bengaluru, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Design and build a low-latency, high-throughput data forwarding plane with Rust and async/await.
- Develop distributed systems emphasizing concurrency, fault tolerance, messaging, resilience, observability, and horizontal scalability.
- Implement and maintain gRPC-based APIs and services integrating forwarding-plane capabilities with control and orchestration layers.
- Optimize performance through profiling across kernel-space and user-space.
- Contribute to code reviews, architectural discussions, documentation, and mentoring of junior engineers.
- Collaborate across teams to evolve the converged platform and uphold technical excellence.
Requirements
- 14+ years of software development experience with specific expertise in systems programming and Rust.
- Extensive experience with async frameworks such as Tokio or async-std.
- Proven experience building resilient, observable, and horizontally scalable distributed systems.
- Deep understanding of Linux fundamentals, networking, container-based environments, CI/CD, and kernel-user space interaction.
- Foundational understanding of AI/ML technologies and experience leveraging, securing, or positioning AI-driven solutions within the functional domain.
- Preferred experience with C/C++ or Go in performance-critical environments and eBPF, XDP, or DPDK.
- Preferred hands-on experience with gRPC, Protobufs, and TCP/IP, UDP, and QUIC.
- Preferred experience with AI-assisted developer tools, automated profiling, or AI acceleration libraries.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement.
- Various health plans, vacation and sick time off plans, parental leave options, retirement options, education reimbursement, and in-office perks.
- Inclusive workplace and reasonable support for disabilities, long-term conditions, mental health conditions, religious beliefs, neurodivergence, and pregnancy-related needs.
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.