Zscaler

Principal Software Development Engineer

Zscaler
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2 hours ago
Santa Clara, CA, USAStaff+
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Base Salary

$185k - $265k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Lead and scale the engineering team performing deep troubleshooting across operating systems, networking, and distributed systems.
  • Develop standardized diagnostics, monitoring automation, automated remediation, and supportability tools for the Zero Trust Branch platform.
  • Champion AI-based solutions that improve internal detection and reduce triage time.
  • Partner with product and engineering teams to deliver reliable, scalable cloud security solutions.
  • Drive customer issue debugging, root-cause resolution, post-incident actions, and permanent preventive fixes.
  • Build diagnosable-by-design capabilities including SDKs, templates, and standards.

Requirements

  • Experience leading software development, software sustenance engineering, or customer escalation engineering teams.
  • Technical proficiency in Python, Go, and Linux systems.
  • Hands-on experience with network security products, routing, switching, DHCP, and DNS; SD-WAN, micro-segmentation, and SASE/SSE experience is a plus.
  • Experience developing troubleshooting and monitoring automation, driving root-cause resolution, and delivering automated remediation.
  • Experience as a reliability engineer or developer partnering with engineering teams to advance cloud reliability.
  • Foundational understanding of AI/ML technologies and experience leveraging, securing, or positioning AI-driven solutions.
  • Preferred: experience with agentic AI workflows and LLM frameworks, a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a relevant engineering discipline, and experience building large-scale customer or cloud reliability engineering cultures.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work arrangement in Santa Clara, California.
  • Various health plans, vacation and sick time, parental leave, retirement options, education reimbursement, and in-office perks.
  • Inclusive benefits and workplace accommodations or adjustments are available.

Tech Stack

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About Zscaler

5,001-10,000 employees

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.

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