Zscaler

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.

Responsibilities/What You’ll Do:

• Lead the development of our large-scale distributed platform
• Design custom compression algorithms to increase the storage density of logs and metrics
• Improve the performance of ad-hoc queries supported by our query engine
• Profile code and improve the efficiency of hot spots
• Mentor junior engineers

Qualifications

• Experience in building and managing high performing engineering teams.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.
• Responsible for all stakeholder management including but not limited to business, product, and operations.
• 12+ years of software development experience with expertise in C / C++ programming
• Strong in Algorithms and Data Structures
• Good understanding of distributed systems
• Very good debugging and troubleshooting skills.
• Working knowledge of any Unix system
• Strong in fundamentals - High-performance Computing, Event-based programming, Multi-threading, Memory optimization, Fault Tolerance, etc
• Experience developing large, maintainable software product architectures
• Strong software design, profiling and verification skills
• Knowledge of TCP/IP, HTTP protocols and tuning
• BS degree or higher strongly preferred
• Excellent verbal, written and interpersonal skills
• Ability to handle multiple tasks, prioritize and meet deadlines
• Self-starter takes initiative, identifies and completes tasks; goal-driven
• Professional with the ability to properly handle confidential information
• Ability to work and thrive in a geographically distributed team

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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.

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