Job Description

About Zscaler

Serving thousands of enterprise customers around the world including 40% of Fortune 500 companies, Zscaler (NASDAQ: ZS) was founded in 2007 with a mission to make the cloud a safe place to do business and a more enjoyable experience for enterprise users. As the operator of the world’s largest security cloud, Zscaler accelerates digital transformation so enterprises can be more agile, efficient, resilient, and secure. The pioneering, AI-powered Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange™ platform, which is found in our SASE and SSE offerings, protects thousands of enterprise customers from cyberattacks and data loss by securely connecting users, devices, and applications in any location.

Named a Best Workplace in Technology by Fortune and others, Zscaler fosters an inclusive and supportive culture that is home to some of the brightest minds in the industry. If you thrive in an environment that is fast-paced and collaborative, and you are passionate about building and innovating for the greater good, come make your next move with Zscaler. 

Our Engineering team built the world’s largest cloud security platform from the ground up, and we keep building. With more than 100 patents and big plans for enhancing services and increasing our global footprint, the team has made us and our multitenant architecture today's cloud security leader, with more than 15 million users in 185 countries. Bring your vision and passion to our team of cloud architects, software engineers, security experts, and more who are enabling organizations worldwide to harness speed and agility with a cloud-first strategy.

We are seeking a visionary and dynamic Staff Engineer to join our ZPA ControlPath team.  

You will be reporting to the Senior Manager, you'll be responsible for:

• Working closely with Principal Engineers, collaborating on architectural changes, product designs thereby making impactful changes
• Building and operating high scale systems
• Overseeing the software development lifecycle to deliver quality products and aligning technical solutions with product and user needs

What We're Looking for (Minimum Qualifications)

• 6+ years of experience in Java coding in a highly distributed and enterprise-scale environment 
• Experience being oncall and dealing with cloud incidents and writing RCAs
• Working knowledge of cloud infrastructure services on AWS/Azure 
• Great mentor and coach Bachelor Degree/or Masters Degree in computer science or equivalent experience

What Will Make You Stand Out (Preferred Qualifications)

• Experience building full CI/CD systems leveraging Kubernetes for Microservices
• Experiences building reliable and extensible data tiers for large scale web services (Postgres and Redis)
• Experience building web service frameworks with Logging and Analytics experience with Druid, Kafka, Opensearch