Android Staff Software Engineer

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.

Zscaler enables the world’s leading organizations to securely transform their networks and applications for a mobile and cloud-first world. Applications have moved from the data center to the cloud and users are connecting to their workloads from everywhere, but security has remained anchored to the data center. Zscaler is redefining security by moving it out of the data center and into the cloud.

The Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange uses software-defined business policies, not appliances, to securely connect the right user to the right application, regardless of device, location, or network. Zscaler operates 4 pillars of Trust Exchange. Zscaler Internet Access™ which scans every byte of traffic to ensure that nothing bad comes in and nothing good leaks out. Zscaler Private Access™ offers authorized users secure and fast access to internal applications hosted in the data center or public clouds—without a VPN. Zscaler Cloud Workload Protection, to identify and remediate risks associated with customer’s cloud infrastructure. Zscaler Workload Segmentation provides micro-segmentation of processes across multiple systems with Machine Learning based policy.

Zscaler services are 100% cloud delivered and offer the simplicity, enhanced security, and improved user experience that traditional appliances or hybrid solutions are unable to match. Used in more than 185 countries, the Zscaler multi-tenant, distributed security cloud protects thousands of customers from cyberattacks and data loss, enabling customers to embrace the agility, speed, and cost containment of the cloud—securely.

Job Description

The Mobile team at Zscaler is responsible for developing a cross-platform client application for Windows, MacOS, Android, IOS and Linux, to securely steer endpoint traffic to Zscaler cloud. The ideal candidate for this position will have a background in software development of networking applications, testing, and deployment with a strong focus on performance, reliability and quality. This role requires excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to work collaboratively with development teams to ensure that our software meets the highest standards of reliability and quality.

Ideally, you will have worked on a VPN client or like a client application and understand the intricacies of multi-version multi-platform client apps. This is a technical position and you will be involved in all aspects of product development lifecycle – requirements discussion/analysis, design, scope estimation, planning, implementation, code reviews and unit testing, documentation, POCs, deployment and continuing engineering.

Primary Responsibility:

• Work with Product Management to understand requirements and customer needs.
• Design and Develop networking software and SDKs using the latest software development techniques.
• Monitor and analyze software performance data to identify and address issues related to reliability and quality.
• Develop and execute automated tests to validate software functionality and reliability.
• Work with QA to create better test strategies, reproduce customer issues and deliver better quality product releases.

Qualifications

• 7+ years software engineering experience, with emphasis on networking-based applications for Android Operating System
• Understanding of TCP/IP networking model with focus on Layer 3 and above 
• Solid understanding of networking protocols like TLS/DTLS/HTTPS/DNS
• Experience with Android NDK
• Hands on experience with object-oriented languages such as C++, Jav