About the company
Zscaler (NASDAQ: ZS) accelerates digital transformation so customers can be more agile, efficient, resilient, and secure. The Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange platform protects thousands of customers from cyberattacks and data loss by securely connecting users, devices, and applications in any location.
Responsibilities
- Design and build a low-latency, high-throughput data forwarding plane using Rust, leveraging its async/await model for efficient I/O and service-oriented infrastructure
- Develop distributed, scalable systems with a focus on concurrency, fault tolerance, and messaging
- Implement and maintain gRPC-based APIs and services to integrate forwarding plane capabilities with control and orchestration layers
- Optimize system performance through profiling tools across kernel-space and user-space
- Engage in code reviews, system design discussions, technical documentation, and mentoring junior engineers
Requirements
- Foundational understanding of AI/ML technologies
- Extensive experience coding with Rust, particularly in systems programming and async frameworks like Tokio or async-std
- Proven expertise in building resilient, observable, and horizontally scalable distributed systems
- Strong understanding of Linux fundamentals, including networking, namespaces, sockets, and kernel-user space interaction
- Proficiency in container-based environments, Git, CI/CD workflows, and performance instrumentation
- Experience with C/C++ or Go (preferred)
- Familiarity with eBPF, DPDK, Kubernetes networking or service meshes (preferred)
- Hands-on experience with gRPC, Protobufs, and L2–L4 networking protocols including TCP/IP, QUIC, or routing encapsulations (preferred)
Conditions
- Hybrid role based in San Jose, CA
- Base pay range: $180,000 – $225,000 USD
- Benefits: health plans, time off, parental leave, retirement options, education reimbursement, in-office perks