Sr. Staff Software Engineer - ZTW Cloud

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 Senior Staff Software Engineer - ZTW Cloud you will play a crucial role in designing, developing and enhancing functionality for ZScaler Cloud Connector. Cloud Connector provides Zero Trust Security for workloads, hosted in a public cloud environment either for cloud-cloud, cloud to private datacenter. 

Responsibilities

• Partner with Product Management to drive detailed product requirements
• Define software design specifications and implement bug free code using test driven methodology. 
• 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 programming skills in either C language or Golang, plus Python programming -, Data structures/Algorithms & debugging skills in a cloud environment.  
• Strong knowledge of networking protocols and services - DNS, HTTP, TCP/IP, SSL/TLS
• Must have knowledge of Firewall policy enforcement and traffic forwarding rules
• Good Unix/Linux kernel system knowledge
• Must have experience working with GCP, and either AWS or Azure networking, namely -  transit gateway, IGW, NATGW, NACL, security groups. GWLB, ILB, Route53, Azure DNS.
• Good experience in working with cloud Database services and PubSub mechanisms and SDKs. 
• Familiarity with Identity management and authentication is desirable.
• Working knowledge of Terraform, CI/CD platforms and Unix shell scripting.
• Strong software design, profiling, and verification skills and exposure to optimizing for scale and performance
• Deep understanding of software design concepts
• Proven problem solving/analytical skills
• Effective communication skills
• Must be a strong team player and able to work independently

Additional Information

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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 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. 

Additional information about Zscaler (NASDAQ: ZS ) is available at https://www.zscaler.com. 

Zscaler is proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status.

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