Base Salary
$182k - $260k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and build a low-latency, high-throughput Rust data forwarding plane using asynchronous I/O and service-oriented infrastructure.
- Develop distributed, scalable systems focused on concurrency, fault tolerance, and messaging.
- Implement and maintain gRPC APIs and services connecting forwarding-plane capabilities with control and orchestration layers.
- Optimize performance using profiling tools across kernel and user space.
- Participate in code reviews, system design discussions, and technical documentation.
- Mentor junior engineers and collaborate with stakeholders.
Requirements
- Extensive Rust coding experience, particularly in systems programming and asynchronous frameworks such as Tokio or async-std.
- Expertise building resilient, observable, and horizontally scalable distributed systems.
- Strong understanding of Linux networking, namespaces, sockets, and kernel-user-space interaction.
- Proficiency with container-based environments, Git, CI/CD workflows, and performance instrumentation.
- Preferred: experience with C, C++, or Go in performance-critical environments.
- Preferred: familiarity with Linux networking stacks, eBPF, DPDK, Kubernetes networking, or service meshes.
- Preferred: hands-on experience with gRPC, Protobufs, and L2–L4 protocols including TCP/IP, QUIC, or routing encapsulations.
Benefits
- Hybrid role based in San Jose, California
- 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/