Sr. Staff Software Engineer, Branch Connector

Company Description

Zscaler (NASDAQ: ZS) accelerates digital transformation so that customers can be more agile, efficient, resilient, and secure. The Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange is the company’s cloud-native platform that protects thousands of customers from cyberattacks and data loss by securely connecting users, devices, and applications in any location. 

With more than 10 years of experience developing, operating, and scaling the cloud, Zscaler serves thousands of enterprise customers around the world, including 450 of the Forbes Global 2000 organizations. In addition to protecting customers from damaging threats, such as ransomware and data exfiltration, it helps them slash costs, reduce complexity, and improve the user experience by eliminating stacks of latency-creating gateway appliances. 

Zscaler 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. Zscaler’s purpose-built security platform puts a company’s defenses and controls where the connections occur—the internet—so that every connection is fast and secure, no matter how or where users connect or where their applications and workloads reside.

Job Description

As a Sr. Staff Software Engineer - Branch Connector, you will play a crucial role in designing, developing and enhancing functionality for ZScaler Branch Connector applications. Branch Connector provides Zero Trust Security for users and application traffic originating from a remote branch to internet, cloud or another remote branch or data center.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Product Management to drive detailed product requirements
• Define software design specifications, task breakdown and estimation, and implement bug free code with unit test automation
• Look for opportunities to refactor existing code in the interests of maintainability and reusability
• Collaborate closely with other cross functional engineering teams (security, UI, platform, analytics and quality assurance) 
• Diagnose complex customer issues and take ownership of issue resolution

Qualifications

• BS or MS degree in CS/CE or equivalent is required
• Minimum 10 years software development experience in building large-scale commercial networking and security applications
• Strong hands-on programming in C and in depth knowledge in Data-Structures and Algorithms
• Strong knowledge of networking protocols and services - DNS, HTTP, TCP/IP, SSL/TLS
• Experience in security technologies like firewall, IPS, Authentication and networking technologies like VPN/IPSec and data plane traffic forwarding 
• Good Unix/Linux Kernel & file system knowledge
• Good working experience in virtual appliance platforms like ESXi Hypervisor, KVM infra as well as GCP, AWS, Azure
• Strong software design concepts - HA, failover redundancy, load balancing, optimizing for scale and performance
• Experience working on technologies like Ansible, Terraform, and CI/CD platforms
• Effective communication skills
• Must be a strong team player and able to work independently, and also mentor and guide junior engineers. 

Additional Information

What You Can Expect From Us

• An environment where you will be working on cutting-edge technologies and architectures
• A fun, passionate and collaborative workplace
• Competitive salary and benefits, including equity
• The pace and excitement of working for a Silicon Valley market leader

Why Zscaler?

People who excel at Zscaler are smart, motivated and share our values. Ask yourself: Do you want to team with the best talent in the industry? Do you want to work on disruptive technology? Do you thrive in a fluid work environment? Do you appreciate a company culture that enables individual and group success and celebrates achievement? If you said yes, we’d love to talk to you about joining our award-winning team.

Learn more at zscaler.com or follow us on Twitter @zscaler. Additional information about Zscaler (NASDAQ: ZS ) is available at http://www.zscaler.com.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or on the basis of disability.

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What You Can Expect From Us:

• An environment where you will be working on cutting edge technologies and architectures
• A fun, passionate and collaborative workplace
• Competitive salary and benefits, including equity

Why Zscaler?

People who excel at Zscaler are smart, motivated and share our val