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.

For over 15 years, Zscaler has been disrupting and transforming the security industry. Our 100% purpose-built cloud platform delivers the entire gateway security stack as a service through 150 global datacenters to securely connect users to their applications, regardless of device, location, or network in over 185 countries protecting over 3,900 companies and have detected 100 million threats/day. 

We develop innovative solutions that are transforming the internet security business, and millions of users rely daily on our service for data protection and comprehensive security. We also provide real-time analytics to our customers for unmatched visibility and maintain a state-of-the-art NOC. The development team works on the complete L1-L7 n/w stack, Zscaler OS, Device Drivers, web filtering, policy enforcement, next-gen firewall, sandboxing, DLP, Digital Experience and mobile user solutions. Being responsive to our customers and delivering industry-leading, mission-critical solutions require precise engineering and a philosophy of continuous improvement- both areas in which Zscaler engineers excel. 

Responsibilities:

  • You will be responsible for developing a cloud application to measure and monitor end user experience, application performance and network health .
  • Your programming expertise will help deliver software that will be deployed across private and public clouds for our Fastest growing product line - ZDX .
  • You will be expected to participate in all phases of the product development cycle, from definition, design, through implementation and testing.
  • Develop functional specifications, assess task requirements and scheduling, and participate in the development, debugging and support.

Minimum Qualifications:

  • 6+ years of software development experience in large-scale commercial networking-oriented applications
  • Expert-level programming skills in C and Unix.
  • Hands on Experience in troubleshooting networking issues using tools like Wireshark, tcpdump, curl, wget etc.
  • Strong in fundamentals - TCP/IP, Socket Programming and Fault Tolerance.
  • Experience on HTTP , TLS/SSL
  • Experience with Linux/FreeBSD based networking solutions.
  • Experience in Load balancers, Web Servers and Routers in multi-threading / multi-core / fault tolerant real-time embedded platforms.
  • Good understanding of distributed systems and web proxies is a plus.
  • Comfortable with python and writing unit test cases for features developed.
  • Familiar with the complete software development cycle.
  • Self-starter, quick-learner, able to multitask, and collaborate with others in a team environment.
  • BS/MS degree (Engineering/Computer Science) .
  • Ability to work with remote teams, handle multiple tasks, prioritize and meet deadlines
  • Excellent verbal, written and interpersonal skills.
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Desired Skills:

  • Experiencing in Security, High performance Computing, Event based programming,
  • Working in Agile teams to push new code into production every sprint.
  • Knowledge of VPN, ICAP, IPS/IDS and Firewall is a plus.
  • Experience with Go and Python.
  • Good exposure in developing services on at least one of the cloud platforms - AWS/AZURE/GCP.

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By applying for this role, you adhere to applicable laws, regulations, and Zscaler policies, including those related to security and privacy standards and guidelines.

Zscaler is proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all of our employees. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy or related medical conditions), age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristics protected by federal, state, or local laws.

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