Staff Software Development Engineer - Java + Microservices

Overview

Staff Software Development Engineer on Zscaler's Engineering team, building and operating high-scale multitenant cloud security systems. Hybrid role in Hyderabad, reporting to the Senior Director of Software Engineering.

What you'll do

• Understand how to build and operate high scale systems
• Provide service and product wide architectural guidance, and drive impactful technical decisions
• Establish and enforce best practices for coding, testing, observability, and CI/CD pipelines to maintain high-quality, production-ready services
• Drive cross-team collaboration and lead initiatives in performance optimization, reliability improvements, and adoption of new technologies/tools to accelerate feature velocity

What you'll need

• Foundational understanding of AI/ML technologies and experience leveraging, securing, or positioning AI-driven solutions to optimize outcomes within your functional domain
• Sound CI/CD based development, integration and deployment experience
• 6+ years of experience in Java/Go coding in a highly distributed and enterprise-scale environment after completion of Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent experience
• Working knowledge of cloud infrastructure services working in Kubernetes, web service frameworks, and streaming data infrastructure like Apache Spark, Kafka, Druid, or ElasticSearch
• Strong experience with distributed systems and microservices architecture, design pattern

Nice to have

• Experience integrating AI/ML frameworks or intelligent data path analysis models to optimize kernel-level networking performance and automate predictive threat detection
• Experience building reliable data tiers using Postgres, Redis, Terraform, Ansible, graph databases like Neo4j or AWS Neptune, and developing GraphQL APIs
• Deep knowledge of identity and access management systems (Okta, SAML, OAuth), test automation, Python programming, and designing fault-tolerant distributed systems for networking or cloud security products

Details

• Location: Hyderabad
• Work mode: Hybrid
• Reports to the Senior Director of Software Engineering