Director, Software Engineering - Common Platform Services
About The Position
Zscaler accelerates digital transformation to ensure our customers can be more agile, efficient, resilient, and secure. As an AI-forward enterprise, we are constantly pushing the envelope, leveraging the world’s largest security data lake to power our cloud-native Zero Trust Exchange platform. This innovation protects our customers from cyberattacks and data loss by securely connecting users, devices, and applications in any location. Here, impact in your role matters more than title and trust is built on results. We say, impact over activity. We seek innovators who actively use AI to amplify their impact and who thrive in an environment where we leverage intelligent systems to stay ahead of evolving threats. We believe in transparency and value constructive, honest debate—we’re focused on getting to the best ideas, faster. We build high-performing teams that can make an impact quickly and with high quality. To do this, we are building a culture of execution centered on customer obsession, collaboration, ownership, and accountability. We value high-impact, high-accountability with a sense of urgency where you’re enabled to do your best work and embrace your potential. If you’re driven by purpose, thrive on solving complex challenges, and want to be part of the team that’s helping to secure the AI age, we invite you to bring your talents to Zscaler and help shape the future of cybersecurity.
Requirements
- Demonstrated curiosity and active exploration of AI tools, with a proven history of integrating new technologies to enhance daily workflows and augment problem-solving
- 15+ years of software engineering experience, including 10+ years of technical people management and product/service delivery experience across public and private clouds
- U.S. citizenship due to the nature of the customers assigned to this role
- Strong technical leadership in building products with hyperscalers like AWS or GCP
- Extensive experience building cloud services engineered for massive scale and resiliency
Nice To Haves
- Exceptional organizational leadership capabilities and communication skills tailored for executive visibility
- Deep product domain experience in security, networking, or enterprise workflow software like ServiceNow
- Proven ability to guide engineering teams through a comprehensive technical transformation journey using AI tooling
Responsibilities
- Lead large cross-functional teams to drive the technical roadmap, scale engineering talent, and guarantee operational execution
- Demonstrate executive presence and strong communication skills to enable high-level leadership visibility
- Bring transformation through the entire SDLC to modernize the team and execute a completely AI-native approach
- Provide deep technical leadership and decision-making backed by hands-on experience with cloud technologies like AWS and GCP
- Build enterprise-scale web service products for workflow automation and notification channels that integrate with Salesforce, AWS, and GCP
Benefits
- Various health plans
- Time off plans for vacation and sick time
- Parental leave options
- Retirement options
- Education reimbursement
- In-office perks, and more!
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
Education Level
No Education Listed
