Zscaler

Technology

PrincipalSoftwareDevelopmentEngineer

$250–400k ~AI est. San Jose, California, United States; United States; Canada Remote Friendly
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HIGH DEMAND

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The Brief

“Principal Software Development Engineer at Zscaler. Skills: Microservices, Event-driven architecture, Data engineering, Cloud-native platform. Architect scalable microservices. Deliver scalable microservices”

What You'll Achieve.

Meet uptime goals; Meet latency goals; Meet scale goals; Deliver high-quality results; Maintain high bar for quality; Maintain high bar for security

Industry & Context.

Technology
Problems you'll solve

Problem-solver; Finding solutions; Solving complex challenges; Root-cause analysis

Eligibility Requirements

On-call

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

12+ years backend engineering, 12+ years designing scalable microservices, 12+ years shipping scalable microservices, Production microservices developed in Go, Event-driven architectures experience, Asynchronous architectures experience, Messaging/streaming platforms experience, Data engineering skills, Persistence skills, Efficient ingest patterns experience, Efficient query patterns experience, Relational databases experience, ElasticSearch or Neo4J experience, Kubernetes experience, EKS experience, Deployment troubleshooting experience, Operational ownership experience

Nice to Have

Profile distributed systems experience, Optimize distributed systems experience, Performance tuning experience, Debuggability design experience, Observability design experience, Structured logging experience, Distributed tracing experience, Actionable dashboards experience, Alerts experience, SLI/SLO definition experience, SLI/SLO operationalization experience, Product decisions based on service health experience

What You'll Do.

Architect scalable microservices

Deliver scalable microservices

Design production services

Build production services

Operate production services

Build event-driven pipelines

Implement asynchronous workflows

Design high-performance data models

Design data access patterns

Harden production readiness

Drive root-cause fixes

Drive reliability improvements

Lead cross-team delivery

Lead technical direction

Break down complex work

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Cross-team execution; Collaborate with groups; Align stakeholders

Communication Scope

Precise communicator

Process & Methodology

Work breakdown

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’re looking for a Principal Software Development Engineer to join our team. Based out of our San Jose headquarters (Hybrid 3 days/week) or available as a remote opportunity within the Pacific Timezone, you will report to the Senior Manager, Software Engineering within the Zero Trust Exchange department. As a Principal Software Engineer you will build the backend systems that keep the product fast, reliable, and able to scale as usage grows. You will create microservices and event-driven workflows, and ensure data can be ingested and queried efficiently across

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