Software Engineer - Java

About Zscaler

Zscaler (NASDAQ: ZS) accelerates digital transformation so that customers can be more agile, efficient, resilient, and secure. The Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange is the company’s cloud-native platform that protects thousands of customers from cyberattacks and data loss by securely connecting users, devices, and applications in any location. 

With more than 10 years of experience developing, operating, and scaling the cloud, Zscaler serves thousands of enterprise customers around the world, including 450 of the Forbes Global 2000 organizations. In addition to protecting customers from damaging threats, such as ransomware and data exfiltration, it helps them slash costs, reduce complexity, and improve the user experience by eliminating stacks of latency-creating gateway appliances. 

Zscaler was founded in 2007 with a mission to make the cloud a safe place to do business and a more enjoyable experience for enterprise users. Zscaler’s purpose-built security platform puts a company’s defenses and controls where the connections occur—the internet—so that every connection is fast and secure, no matter how or where users connect or where their applications and workloads reside.

The Software Engineer will report to the Director of Application Engineering. The Software Engineer will be part of our development team in Bangalore focusing on Zscaler Provisioning Tools. Ideal candidates are those who are FullStack developers, have a good understanding of open stack technology components and development tools, with strong proficiency in Spring framework, cloud technologies like AWS/Azure/any other cloud, RESTful APIs, micro-service architecture and NoSQL databases. You are also proficient with cloud design patterns and data structures, an avid problem solver and love to code. Please apply only if you love to code, will be totally comfortable with an individual contributor role and if you love to take ownership of a large component and be fully accountable for it.  

The Zscaler engineering team has built the world’s largest cloud security platform from the ground up — and it just keeps building. With more than 100 patents and big plans for enhancing platform services and increasing its global footprint, the team is taking the Zscaler multi-tenant architecture from an innovative idea back in 2008 to today's cloud security leader, with more than 15 million users in 185 countries.

Responsibilities/What You’ll Do

• You are required to develop high quality software using Full-Stack development components, across UI, middleware and backend layers
• Design, develop and maintain high-quality Java / spring applications, microservices using the Spring, Python, NodeJS stacks, following industry wide standard webapp and microservice architecture principles.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams(Business/Salesforce/Integration) to understand project requirements and deliver scalable, reliable and modular software solutions.
• Implement and integrate cloud-based services and solutions using one of AWS/Azure/GCS technologies.
• Develop and consume RESTful APIs for seamless integration with other systems and applications.
• Optimize application performance, scalability, security and maintainability.
• Work with QA and other engineering teams to investigate and resolve production issues

• 4+ years of software development experience with expertise in Java development, RESTful APIs, microservice architecture, Cloud native application(AWS or any cloud). 
• Strong knowledge of cloud design patterns, data structures, and software engineering best practices
• Experience in REST web services, AWS, Database, NoSQL DB, React
• Extensive Experience with traditional databases and APIs
• Experience with Web Services (REST) and microservices preferred
• Proficiency in Spring framework, including Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, and Spring MVC.
• Experience working with NoSQL databases such as MongoDB, Cassandra, or DynamoDB.
• Must have developed middle-tier or backend java apps for web applications
• Some experience with Hibernate or Object-relational mapping frameworks
• CI/CD principles, pipeline development experience
• Familiarity with the JSON, XML
• Experience with browser debugging and profiling tools
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• AWS/GCP developer certification preferred
• A Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field

 

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