Golang Job: Staff Engineer

For over 10 years, Zscaler has been disrupting and transforming the security industry. Our 100% purpose-built cloud platform delivers the entire gateway security stack as a service through 150 global data centers to securely connect users to their applications, regardless of device, location, or network in over 185 countries protecting over 3,900 companies and have detected 100 Million threats/day.

We work in a fast-paced, dynamic, and make it happen culture. Our people are some of the brightest and passionate in the industry that thrives on being the first to solve problems. We are always looking to hire highly passionate, collaborative, and humble people that want to make a difference.

Responsibilities/What You’ll Do:

• Experience in designing, building and enhancing distributed systems components & must be able to write high-performance code using very efficient algorithms.

• Must be able to ensure that memory is used efficiently so that system responsiveness is maintained during high load times.

• Collaborate with the operations team (OPS) to deploy, monitor and if required patch the changes with fixes and enhancements. Continuously scale the systems as more customers/users get added, able to identify hotspots, and timely alleviate/remediate the situation

• To work cross-functionally with the Quality Assurance team to test the work product, and influence the testing to make the product ready for deployment

• Demonstrate the ability to build software in small, interactive chunks and perform the unit testing prior to handing over to the quality assurance team

Qualifications/Your Background

• Strong Golang/Java programming, Data structures/Algorithms & debugging skills in cloud environment.

• Strong knowledge of design patterns, data structures and software engineering best practices

• Extensive Experience with traditional databases and APIs

• Experience with Web Services (REST) and microservices preferred

• Must have developed middle-tier or backend apps in golang / java

• Experience with containerization using Kubernetes, and on cloud with EKS/ECS/ECR (AWS), AKE/ACR (Azure) and GKE/GCR/GAR (GCP).

• Excellent knowledge of large-scale security solutions architecture, deployment, and integration and having in depth knowledge in cloud/container security.

• Proficient in scripting languages such as Python, bash, PowerShell.

• Hands-on experience in defining Kubernetes pod security policies/access controls/network policies.

• Experience in writing Kubernetes extensions - API access/network plugins/storage plugins/operators.

• Strong operating system, virtual machine, and container knowledge, Good working knowledge of Unix/Linux/Windows systems and OS internals.

• A Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field.

Desired skills:

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Hands-on experience with popular public cloud services infrastructure offerings such as AWS, GCP, Azure.

• Hands-on experience with any cloud/container security/container posture management tools and concepts

Why Zscaler?

• Zscaler is the world’s leading software-as-a-service security platform
• We deliver best of breed security services with unprecedented scale
• 100 Million threats detected a day across 185+ countries
• Glassdoor rating of 4.7/5.0 + 98% CEO Approval = Exceptional place to work!

People who excel at Zscaler are smart, motivated and share our values. Ask yourself: Do you want to team with the best talent in the industry? Do you want to work on disruptive technology? Do you thrive in a fluid work environment? Do you appreciate a company culture that enables individual and group success and celebrates achievement? If you said yes, we’d love to talk to you about joining our award-winning team.

Learn more at zscaler.com or follow us on Twitter @zscaler. Additional information about Zscaler (NASDAQ: ZS ) is available at http://www.zscaler.com. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or based on disability.

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Why Zscaler?

People who excel at Zscaler are smart, motivated and share our values. Ask yourself: Do you want to team with the best talent in the industry? Do you want to work on disruptive technology? Do you thrive in a fluid work environment? Do you appreciate a company culture that enables individual and group success and celebrates achievement? If you said yes, we’d love to talk to you about joining our award-winning team.

Additional information about Zscaler (NASDAQ: ZS ) is available at https://www.zscaler.com.

Zscaler is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.