Zscaler

cybersecurity

Manager,SoftwareDevelopmentEngineering

Bangalore, India
Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

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The Brief

“Manager, Software Development Engineering at Zscaler. Skills: Software Development Engineering Management, Cloud-Native Security, Distributed Systems Architecture, Networking Protocols, SaaS Platform Development. Lead the end-to-end development, testing, deployment, and monitoring of critical services across our Cloud Connector, ZT Gateway, and Microsegmentation clouds. Drive the success of the local India development team”

What You'll Achieve.

accelerate digital transformation; ensure customers can be more agile, efficient, resilient, and secure; protects our customers from cyberattacks and data loss by securely connecting users, devices, and applications in any location; impact in your role matters more than title; trust is built on results; impact over activity; make an impact quickly and with high quality; culture of execution centered on customer obsession, collaboration, ownership, and accountability; high-impact, high-accountability with a sense of urgency; enabled to do your best work and embrace your potential; helping to secure the AI age; shape the future of cybersecurity; securing cloud communications; driving engineering excellence in a high-stakes environment; deliver a world-class product experience

Industry & Context.

cybersecurity
Problems you'll solve

problem-solver; laser-focused on finding the solution; solving the hard problems delivers the biggest impact

Eligibility Requirements

hybrid role based in our Bangalore office at least 3 days a week

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

10+ years of software development experience, at least 2 years dedicated to building high-performance, distributed SaaS platforms at cloud scale, Expert-level command of networking protocols including DNS, HTTP, TCP/IP, and SSL/TLS, deep knowledge of firewall policy enforcement, Extensive experience navigating cloud networking infrastructure (AWS, Azure, or GCP), specifically with transit gateways, IGW, NATGW, NACL, and security groups, A proven track record of hiring, developing, and retaining top-tier engineering talent within a fast-paced environment, proficiency in Agile collaboration models such as Kanban or Scrum, experience utilizing Jira for project execution

Nice to Have

Advanced experience in architecting complex distributed systems and large-scale SaaS solutions, Mastery of specialized firewall technologies and sophisticated networking traffic forwarding rules, In-depth technical certification or specialized knowledge in a specific CSP environment such as AWS, Azure, or GCP

What You'll Do.

Lead the end-to-end development

and monitoring of critical services across our Cloud Connector

and Microsegmentation clouds

Drive the success of the local India development team

serving as a strategic member of the global ZTC leadership team

Manage shifting priorities

maintain aggressive timelines

ensure seamless collaboration between local and remote teams

Lead by example through hands-on technical involvement

mentoring engineers to scale their impact

overseeing code reviews and build processes

Maintain a relentless customer-first mindset

participating in technical escalations and beta trials

deliver a world-class product experience

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Partner with cross-functional stakeholders; ensure seamless collaboration between local and remote teams; high-trust collaborator; ambitious for the team; embrace our challenge culture by giving and receiving ongoing feedback; candor delivered with clarity and respect is the truest form of teamwork; collaboration and belonging

Communication Scope

candor delivered with clarity and respect

Process & Methodology

manage shifting priorities, maintain aggressive timelines, Agile collaboration models, Kanban, Scrum, Jira for project execution

Full Job Description

About Zscaler 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 Manager, Software Development Engineering to join our ZTC (Zero Trust for Cloud) engineering team. This is a hybrid role based in our Bangalore office at least 3 days a week, reporting to the Senior Manager, Software Development Engineering ZTC provides Zero Trust Security for workloads (ZTW) for cloud-to-cloud and cloud-to-private datacenter traffic, as well as Zscaler Microsegmentation (ZMS) for both public and private datacenters. You will lead the charge in securing cloud communications and driving engineering excellence in a high-stake

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