Senior Staff Software Development Engineer, ZIA Core Datapath
Zscaler · San Jose, California, USA ·
- Work mode
- Hybrid
- Seniority
- Staff
- Employment
- Full time
- Category
- Software engineering
- Experience
- 12+ years
- Salary
- USD 157,500 – 225,000 / year
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Architects, builds, and maintains high-scale system test automation infrastructure for Zscaler's ZIA Core Datapath cloud security platform (400B+ daily transactions), validating L4-L7 networking — cloud firewall, IPsec/GRE tunneling, load balancers, IPS/IDS — primarily with Python automation frameworks. Hybrid role, 3 days/week in San Jose.
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. Distributed across 200+ public data centers globally and thousands of private sites at the edge, the SASE-based Zero Trust Exchange is the world’s largest in-line cloud security platform.
We believe the future of work is Human + AI and are building an AI-native enterprise where human potential is amplified by machine intelligence to solve the world’s hardest security challenges. Driven by deep customer obsession, we are committed to the mission, outcome, and to each other. We bring these commitments to life through three core behaviors: ownership and collaboration, trust through outcomes and impact, and a challenge culture with ongoing feedback. Ready to make an impact at the company pioneering security transformation in the AI era? Join us at Zscaler.
Role
We are looking for a Senior Staff Software Development Engineer, ZIA Core Datapath to join our team. This is a hybrid (3 days per week in San Jose, CA office) role, reporting to the Sr Manager, Software Engineering, QA in the ZIA Engineering team. In this role you will own the architecture, development, and maintenance of a high-scale system test automation infrastructure for ZIA Core Datapath, a cloud security platform processing 400B+ transactions daily. You will build repeatable automation suites for L4-L7 technologies, validate cloud firewall and tunneling stacks, diagnose customer issues, and mentor engineers while driving continuous regression optimization.
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