Senior Staff Software Development Engineer (Build Engineering)

Zscaler•San Jose, CA

8d•Hybrid

About The Position

We are looking for a proactive Senior Staff Software Development Engineer (Build Engineering) to accelerate ZIA's transformation into a modernized, automated CI/CD environment. By taking ownership of critical self-service and automation initiatives, you will help scale a lean infrastructure team to meet high demands and directly elevate the daily productivity and developer experience for several hundred engineers.

Requirements

8+ years of experience designing and deploying large-scale infrastructure in public clouds (e.g., AWS, GCP) with expert-level proficiency in IaC tools (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation)
Expert understanding of the end-to-end SDLC, Linux systems, kernel-level concepts, and complex software compilation and packaging processes
Proven ability to programmatically build and scale CI/CD pipelines, utilizing strong programming expertise in Go and/or Python, along with tooling like Jenkins, GitLab, or Temporal
Deep foundational knowledge required to onboard rapidly, understand complex ecosystems, and drive immediate, autonomous contributions

Nice To Haves

Familiarity with, or a strong desire to learn, the Bazel build system, as well as comfortability using AI-assisted coding tools (e.g., Windsurf, Claude) to accelerate delivery
Strong hands-on experience on the FreeBSD platform
Good experience in Hypervisor Platforms like Proxmox, ESXi
Extensive hands-on experience with microservices architecture