Sr. Staff Software Development Engineer - C, Load Balancers, Firewalls

Zscaler•San Jose, CA

14d•Hybrid

About The Position

About Zscaler Zscaler accelerates digital transformation so our customers can be more agile, efficient, resilient, and secure. Our cloud native Zero Trust Exchange platform protects thousands of 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 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 make a positive difference on a global scale, we invite you to bring your talents to Zscaler and help shape the future of cybersecurity. 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. We're looking for a Senior Staff Software Development Engineer to join our ZIA Cloud team. You will be working on firewalls and cross product features between ZIA and ZPA to present a greater value than its parts. You will bring technical expertise in network security, hands-on development experience, and proven leadership capabilities. This is a hybrid role going into the San Jose, CA office 3 days a week.

Requirements

8+ years of experience in designing and implementing networking security software and public clouds infrastructure
Experience in Load balancers, IPS/IDS, Routers, Firewall products
Expert-level programming skills in C/UNIX/RTOS
Strong in fundamentals - TCP/IP, HTTP, QUIC, QUIC
Experience with High performance Computing, Event based programming, Fault Tolerance etc.

Nice To Haves

Experience in SaaS based Firewall/SWG solutions
Experience solving Performance and Scaling bottlenecks
Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience

Responsibilities

Participate in design, development, and optimization of firewall and in Cloud Infrastructure
Execute the technical roadmap for firewalls, ensuring alignment with business goals
Communicate technical solutions to all levels within-group and cross-discipline. status reporting and presenting solutions is an integral part of the job
Own the feature you are responsible for all the way to deployment and operations. Ensure performance, security, scale, reliability, operational and cost optimization criteria are met