What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sr. Staff Software Engineer position at Zscaler?
Our Engineering team built the world’s largest cloud security platform from the ground up, and we keep building. With more than 100 patents and big plans for enhancing services and increasing our global footprint, the team has made us and our multitenant architecture today’s cloud security leader, with more than 15 million users in 185 countries. Bring your vision and passion to our team of cloud architects, software engineers, security experts, and more who are enabling organizations worldwide to harness speed and agility with a cloud-first strategy.
We’re looking for an experienced Sr. Staff Software Engineer to join our Engineering team. This role is a remote position. Reporting to the Sr. Director of Engineering, you will:
- Develop and manage shared infrastructure automation for US federal, regulated, and sovereign cloud environments.
- Improve security of CI/CD systems and automate change management processes.
- Define and enforce DevOps standards, best practices, and procedures across the engineering team.
- Automate the build-out of new Zscaler clouds and create delivery mechanisms for operational collateral.
- Participate in on-call rotation to support a highly available engineering platform and ensure compliance with federal guidelines.
- Bachelor’s degree in Science, Engineering, IT, or equivalent.
- 5 years of commercial services development experience.
- 5 years of public cloud experience (AWS or Azure).
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform, Ansible).
- Expertise in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.
- Experience with High/Moderate FedRamp authorization levels (IL5/IL6 is a plus).
- Experience in continuous monitoring, vulnerability scanning, patching, and reporting.
- Experience with multiple cloud providers (AWS, Azure) and both relational and non-relational databases for microservices.
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