Senior Director, Engineering

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 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.

Job Description:

We're looking for an experienced Senior Director of Engineering to join our ZPA team, reporting to the VPE. This is a hybrid work environment, going in to our San Jose, CA office 3 days a week.

We are looking for an accomplished Engineering Leader whose role will encompass multiple aspects of program delivery, technical leadership, and people management. This position includes responsibilities for providing overall leadership to the team, setting a direction for the team, ensuring all commitments are met. You will lead a Networking and systems team consisting of managers and individual contributors from the software engineering discipline. You will work with a team of engineers and architects and will be responsible for prototyping, designing, developing, and supporting a highly distributed and scalable SaaS-based cloud service product called ZPA (Zscaler Private Access).

• Passionate about building a large-scale, best in class product with a focus on RASS – Reliability, Availability, Scalability and Security.
• Drive quality process and trustworthy computing initiatives throughout the product lifecycle to eliminate architecture, design, and coding defects at the source
• Ensure performance, security, scale, reliability, operational and cost optimization criteria are met

What We’re Looking for (Minimum Qualifications) 

• 10 + years of Engineering Management experience with a track record in managing (40+ members) Global Engineering teams
• 10+ years of hands-on development experience including relevant experience developing networking and systems software products and solutions with experience in TCP/IP, SSL, Https, UDP, and networking protocols.
• Experience in designing, developing, and maintaining a large code base with C programming language on a distributed software product architectures.
• Expertise in architecture reviews related to features, performance and scalability of products
• Experience forging consensus on technical discussions including architectural and design guidelines, code reviews, release process, etc.

What Will Make You Stand Out (Preferred Qualifications)

• Experience with working cross-functionally like DevOps, QA, Product Management, and Support.
• Strong understanding of design / architectural patterns and automation platforms.
• Good on Estimation Practices: Effort and Schedule

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The base salary range listed for this full-time position excludes commission/ bonus/ equity (if applicable) + benefits.

Base Pay Range$217,000—$310,000 USD

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