Staff Software Development Engineer
About Zscaler
Zscaler accelerates digital transformation to ensure our customers can be more agile, efficient, resilient, and secure. As an AI-forward enterprise, we are constantly pushing the envelope, leveraging the world’s largest security data lake to power our cloud-native Zero Trust Exchange platform. This innovation protects our customers from cyberattacks and data loss by securely connecting users, devices, and applications in any location.
Here, impact in your role matters more than title and trust is built on results. We say, impact over activity. We seek innovators who actively use AI to amplify their impact and who thrive in an environment where we leverage intelligent systems to stay ahead of evolving threats. We believe in transparency and value constructive, honest debate—we’re focused on getting to the best ideas, faster. We build high-performing teams that can make an impact quickly and with high quality. To do this, we are building a culture of execution centered on customer obsession, collaboration, ownership, and accountability.
We value high-impact, high-accountability with a sense of urgency where you’re enabled to do your best work and embrace your potential. If you’re driven by purpose, thrive on solving complex challenges, and want to be part of the team that’s helping to secure the AI age, we invite you to bring your talents to Zscaler and help shape the future of cybersecurity.
Role
We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join our team. This is a hybrid role based in Bangalore, reporting to the Director, Software Engineering in the Engineering department. In this role, you will contribute as a development engineer focusing on system-level optimization, public cloud infrastructure, and core software development. You will drive efficiency by writing automation scripts, analyzing system performance, and resolving complex application-level issues in a collaborative engineering environment.
What you’ll do (Role Expectations)
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Working with Linux/FreeBSD-based systems for software development, including configuration and scripting for system-level optimization
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Proficiently working with public cloud platforms AWS, Azure, and GCP, creating and exporting VM images
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Writing and maintaining automation scripts with Python or Shell for infrastructure tasks, system monitoring, and cloud-based workloads
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Performance profiling to analyze system performance and identify and troubleshoot bottlenecks in resource utilization
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Collaborating with senior engineers to understand, debug, and resolve system and application-level issues
Who You Are (Success Profile)
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You thrive in ambiguity. You're comfortable building the path as you walk it. You thrive in a dynamic environment, seeing ambiguity not as a hindrance, but as the raw material to build something meaningful.
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You act like an owner. Your passion for the mission fuels your bias for action. You operate with integrity because you genuinely care about the outcome. True ownership involves leveraging dynamic range: the ability to navigate seamlessly between high-level strategy and hands-on execution.
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You are a problem-solver…
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