Staff Software Engineer - C, SSL, Https

Our Engineering team built the world’s largest cloud security platform from the ground up, and we keep building. With more than 100 patents and big plans for enhancing services and increasing our global footprint, the team has made us and our multitenant architecture today's cloud security leader, with more than 15 million users in 185 countries. Bring your vision and passion to our team of cloud architects, software engineers, security experts, and more who are enabling organizations worldwide to harness speed and agility with a cloud-first strategy.

We're looking for an experienced Staff Software Engineer to join the ZPA team, reporting to the Senior Director of Engineer. This is a hybrid role in our San Jose, CA office 2-3 days a week.

As a Staff Software Engineer, you will build the next generation Zscaler Private Access (ZPA) product and Shift product in the Emerging Technology group. You will play a crucial role in designing, building and enhancing distributed systems components, writing high performance (suggest visibility)code using very efficient algorithms and ensuring that memory is used efficiently so that system responsiveness is maintained during high load times. You must also be able to process packets at both ingress and egress points at very high speed so that the client using the system does not perceive any increased latencies. Additionally, you will collaborate with the operations team (OPS) to deploy, monitor and if required patch the changes with fixes and enhancements as well as continuously scale the systems as more customers/users get added, the engineer should be able to identify hotspots, and timely alleviate/remediate the situation.

Come and join our team and be part of this exciting transformation to cloud based security.

What We’re Looking for (Minimum Qualifications) 

• 8+ years of experience of developing enterprise applications in a highly distributed environment
• Strong C/C++ programming, Data structures/Algorithms & debugging skills in cloud environment
• Deep understanding of Operating System principles and OS like Linux/Unix
• In-depth understanding of networking concepts including performance parameters of TCP/IP stack
• Experience in Network Data Path & Socket programming & POSIX Multi-thread programming.
• Very strong design and development skills for high-volume production applications
• Web API services infrastructure (RESTful API, Swagger), Microservices.
• Working knowledge of HTTP, HTTP/2, REST, protobuf, gRPC.
• Experience developing distributed software product architectures
• Experience coding in C/C++ and other technologies
• Experience working with large data sets
• Strong software design, profiling, and verification skills
• Deep understanding of the concepts behind solid software design: Abstraction, Modularity, Design Patterns, Representation Invariants, etc.

What Will Make You Stand Out (Preferred Qualifications)

• Unix/Linux Kernel & file system
• Networking, wireless, and/or security experience or knowledge
• Work experience through complete software project delivery cycles

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At Zscaler, we believe that diversity drives innovation, productivity, and success. We are looking for individuals from all backgrounds and identities to join our team and contribute to our mission to make doing business seamless and secure. We are guided by these principles as we create a representative and impactful team, and a culture where everyone belongs. For more information on our commitments to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging, visit the Corporate Responsibility page of our website.

Our Benefits program is one of the most important ways we support our employees. Zscaler proudly offers comprehensive and inclusive benefits to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families throughout their life stages, including:

• Various health plans
• A flexible time off policy
• Parental leave options
• Retirement options
• Education reimbursement
• In-office perks, and more!