Staff Golang Developer

Zscaler•San Jose, CA

6d•Hybrid

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. Role We are looking for a Staff or Sr. Staff Software Engineer to join our Platform Convergence team. This is a hybrid role based in San Jose, CA (3 days a week), reporting to the Sr. Director of Software Engineering within the Engineering department. You will bring your vision and passion to a team of architects and engineers building the world’s largest cloud security platform. You will help organizations worldwide harness speed and agility through a cloud-first strategy and a robust multitenant architecture.

Requirements

5+ years of experience with proficiency in Go language, including expertise in concurrency, parallelism, GRPC, and Protobuf
Skilled in building large-scale distributed systems, RESTful API design, and web frameworks like Gin and Echo
Hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure
Solid understanding of SQL and NoSQL databases along with CI/CD pipeline implementation
Exceptional problem-solving skills and attention to detail for designing robust technical solutions

Nice To Haves

Experience with systems languages like Rust or C/C++, particularly in performance-critical environments

Responsibilities

Lead, design, and implement scalable, high-performance backend services and APIs using Go while integrating with PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, and Redis
Ensure code quality through unit, integration, and performance testing while monitoring and optimizing system performance
Mentor junior engineers to foster their growth and lead code reviews to uphold high engineering standards
Partner with external teams to deliver integrated solutions and ensure seamless system functionality across the platform
Drive project success by contributing to Agile/Scrum processes, including sprint planning and retrospectives