Staff Software Development Engineer

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.

Qualifications

What you will do:

• Lead the development of our large-scale distributed platform by leveraging Java technology stack, Streaming, event-driven architecture, and NoSQL databases.
• Develop and implement best engineering practices to optimize team productivity and delivery timelines.
• Manage and mentor a team of highly skilled engineers to deliver high-quality software.
• You will be responsible for product features related to data transformations, enrichment, and analytics
• You will discuss with product managers, UX designers, and other backend teams to understand requirements and translate the same into functional specifications 
• You will seize every opportunity to refactor code in the interests of maintainability and reusability
• Lead and provide technical direction and mentorship to junior engineers and bring out the best in them
• The ideal candidate has a proven track record of building large scale enterprise products, and is a creative thinker, problem solver, learner, and a fantastic manager of people, and is motivated with engineering excellence.

Requirements:

• Education: BS Computer Science or Equivalent
• Minimum 14+ years of software development experience
• Experience in Core Java, Concurrency, Distributed Computing and Scalable web services
• Experience in building and managing high performing engineering teams.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.
• Responsible for all stakeholder management including but not limited to business, product, and operations.
• Hiring, mentoring, and retaining a best-of-class engineering team
• Experience using batch and stream processing frameworks like Spark/Kafka Streaming, Spring batch or equivalent
• Proficiency with Tomcat installation and configuration.
• Proficiency with Maven (preferred) or Gradle builds and dependency management systems.
• Experience with CI & CD systems such as Jenkins or Bamboo
• Metrics-driven development experience and experience using metrics systems like Grafana, Prometheus, etc

Desired skills:

• Ability to write code that can perform efficiently in a big data setup
• Experience with big-data technologies like Spark, Redshift, etc.
• Strong knowledge of various DBMS systems including NoSQL architectures and design principles
• Experience tuning JVM for optimal application performance
• Successfully delivered software products from ideation through to implementation and support
• Experience with any Graph Database like AWS Neptune, Neo4j, Spark Graphx, etc.
• Understanding of statistics and machine learning

 

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