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Senior Staff Software Development Engineer

Zscaler
Posted a month ago

LOCATION

Bangalore · Hybrid

EXPERIENCE

8+ Years

SKILLS REQUIRED

C++DebuggingWindows ServicesInter-Process CommunicationMultithreaded Debugging

Job description

Overview

Senior Staff Software Development Engineer on the Client Connector team, owning service-layer components and improving the stability, performance, and maintainability of the Client Connector Agent.

What you'll do

  • Design and implement features across the CCA service, user-mode UI, and supporting subsystems.
  • Diagnose and fix production issues involving crashes, race conditions, lifetime bugs, and synchronization.
  • Improve Windows service reliability, including shutdown, cleanup, and inter-process communication.
  • Develop VDI-specific flows for tunnel traffic accounting and session lifecycle.
  • Review peer code and improve engineering quality.
  • Mentor engineers in Windows systems programming.

What you'll need

  • 8+ years of production software engineering experience.
  • Strong C++14/17 experience.
  • Understanding of Windows services, user sessions, security tokens, IPC, and process/thread lifetime.
  • Experience debugging multithreaded C++ issues including races, deadlocks, iterator invalidation, and use-after-free.
  • Experience shipping and maintaining an enterprise desktop or endpoint product.
  • Foundational understanding of AI/ML technologies and experience leveraging, securing, or positioning AI-driven solutions.

Nice to have

  • Experience with AIOps, AI-driven predictive scaling, or automated anomaly detection.
  • Familiarity with WinDbg, ETW, Process Monitor, and crash dump analysis.
  • Networking, VPN, ZTNA, or secure tunneling experience.

Details

  • Location: Bangalore, India.
  • Work mode: Hybrid.

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Senior Staff Software Development Engineer