About the company
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.
Responsibilities
- Designing, developing, and optimizing the system, including networking and security features, to support high-performance applications. Creating design and functional specification documents while performing unit testing and automation to ensure quality
- Applying strong software design principles and deep troubleshooting expertise to deliver scalable, resilient, and impactful improvements to Zscaler’s Zero Trust Security Services
- Work directly with Engineering Architects, Product Managers, Customers, Solution Architects to understand customer use cases. Review PRDs. Collaborating with cross-functional teams to identify and resolve system-related issues, optimize system performance, and innovate features
- Coach and mentor junior team members and ensure highest level of quality deliverables
- Ensuring federal certifications such as FIPS, FedRAMP, Common Criteria, and SOC2 compliance
Requirements
- Bachelor's or Master's (preferred) degree in Computer Science or a related field with 10+ years of experience in system engineering for high-performance networking
- Expertise in Linux kernel-based networking (L2/L3), stateful firewalls, NAT, network drivers, Routing protocols(BGP, OSPF, PIM), and protocols like VLANs, DHCP, DNS, SSL, DTLS, QUIC, IPsec, GRE and Wireguard
- Proficiency in Go and Python programming languages with excellent problem-solving skills for debugging complex data path issues
- Foundational understanding of AI/ML technologies and experience leveraging, securing, or positioning AI-driven solutions to optimize outcomes within your functional domain
- Strong communication and collaboration skills to work effectively with cross-functional teams in a high-accountability environment while designing scalable systems