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.
We are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead a new software development team in Threat Hunting Services at Zscaler. In this role, you will drive the development of data and threat hunting platforms for identifying, classifying, and detecting security incidents in all Zscaler products. Your responsibilities will include designing, coding, and maintaining innovative data platforms, as well as coaching junior team members on development best practices.
Responsibilities:
- Contribute to the long-term vision for the team's engineering platforms, including vulnerability scanning, data transport and analytics, and business intelligence.
- Lead the design and implementation of distributed software platforms for continuous assessment of threats and vulnerabilities across Zscaler software and hardware assets.
- Maintain a high bar for engineering excellence to ensure 24/7 availability in a full DevOps model.
- Collaborate with product management and distributed systems engineering teams to complete large-scale projects.
- Operate in an Agile development environment.
- Support the team's engineering excellence through code reviews and mentoring.
- Foster a strong team culture.
Requirements:
- Go (sometimes called Golang) experience, specifically building REST APIs, network services, command line utilities, and stand-alone modules.
- Use of database systems (both relational and non-relational) when building REST APIs and other automations. - REST API integration experience using a variety of third party services (not specialization in just one, like Salesforce). - Linux scripting experience (bash shell). - Containerization (Docker) experience. - Use of common AWS services (EC2, S3, SQS, SNS, SES, RDS, etc.) to build backend software in the cloud. - Intermediate to expert understanding of common Internet protocols (TCP/IP, UDP, DNS, HTTP, TLS, QUIC, etc). - Use of Git for source control. Preferred / Nice to Have: - Ability to plan network topologies and security requirements for IPv4 networks in AWS. - AWS infrastructure deployment using Terraform. - Python scripting for automation or other purposes. - CI/CD pipeline creation and maintenance using Atlassian Bamboo. - Integration experience using Salesforce APIs. - Familiarity with common penetration testing and security analysis tools. - Past experience assisting teams with SOC2 compliance.#LI-REMOTE
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The base salary range listed for this full-time position excludes commission/ bonus/ equity (if applicable) + benefits.
Base Pay Range$174,500—$210,000 USDBy applying for this role, you adhere to applicable laws, regulations, and Zscaler policies, including those related to security and privacy standards and guidelines.
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