Sr. Staff Software Development Engineer - Golang + Control Plane

Overview

Senior Staff Software Development Engineer to work on the control plane for Zscaler Internet Access (ZIA) and ZDX products, focusing on large-scale distributed systems.

What you'll do

• Lead, grow, and mentor a team of 6–12 software engineers.
• Define and execute the technical roadmap aligned with business goals.
• Develop and own components of a large-scale distributed system with scalability focus.
• Drive observability (metrics, logs, traces, SLIs/SLOs) to improve product quality.
• Partner with SRE, Support, and Customer Success to reduce incidents.

What you'll need

• 10+ years of software engineering experience.
• Programming in Go or Java.
• Expertise in networking protocols/services including DNS, HTTP, TCP/IP, and SSL/TLS.
• Foundational understanding of AI/ML and experience leveraging/securing/positioning AI-driven solutions.
• Familiarity with monitoring tools such as Prometheus and Grafana.
• Deep understanding of Kubernetes (AWS EKS) and container infrastructure.

Details

• Work mode: Hybrid in Bangalore with 3 days/week in office.