Principal Golang Developer
Confirmed live in the last 24 hours
Zscaler
Compensation
$182,000 - $260,000/year
Job Description
About Zscaler
Zscaler accelerates digital transformation to ensure our customers can be more agile, efficient, resilient, and secure. As an AI-forward enterprise, we are constantly pushing the envelope, leveraging the world’s largest security data lake to power our cloud-native Zero Trust Exchange platform. This innovation protects our customers from cyberattacks and data loss by securely connecting users, devices, and applications in any location.
Here, impact in your role matters more than title and trust is built on results. We say, impact over activity. We seek innovators who actively use AI to amplify their impact and who thrive in an environment where we leverage intelligent systems to stay ahead of evolving threats. We believe in transparency and value constructive, honest debate—we’re focused on getting to the best ideas, faster. We build high-performing teams that can make an impact quickly and with high quality. To do this, we are building a culture of execution centered on customer obsession, collaboration, ownership, and accountability.
We value high-impact, high-accountability with a sense of urgency where you’re enabled to do your best work and embrace your potential. If you’re driven by purpose, thrive on solving complex challenges, and want to be part of the team that’s helping to secure the AI age, we invite you to bring your talents to Zscaler and help shape the future of cybersecurity.
Role
We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer to join our Platform Convergence team. This is a hybrid role based in either San Jose, CA or Bellevue, WA (3 days a week), reporting to the Sr. Director of Software Engineering within the Engineering department. You will bring your vision and passion to a team of architects and engineers building the world’s largest cloud security platform. You will help organizations worldwide harness speed and agility through a cloud-first strategy and a robust multitenant architecture.
What you’ll do (Role Expectations)
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Lead, design, and implement scalable, high-performance backend services and APIs using Go while integrating with PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, and Redis
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Ensure code quality through unit, integration, and performance testing while monitoring and optimizing system performance
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Mentor junior engineers to foster their growth and lead code reviews to uphold high engineering standards
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Partner with external teams to deliver integrated solutions and ensure seamless system functionality across the platform
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Drive project success by contributing to Agile/Scrum processes, including sprint planning and retrospectives
Who You Are (Success Profile)
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You thrive in ambiguity. You're comfortable building the path as you walk it. You thrive in a dynamic environment, seeing ambiguity not as a hindrance, but as the raw material to build something meaningful.
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You act like an owner. Your passion for the mission fuels your bias for action. You operate with integrity because you genuinely care about the outcome. True ownership involves leveraging dynamic range: the ability to navigate seamlessly between high-level strategy and hands-on execution.
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You are a problem-solver. You love running towards the challenges because you are laser-focused on finding the solution, knowing that solving the hard problems delivers the biggest impact.
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You are a high-trust collaborator. You are ambitious for the team, not just yourself. You embrace our challe
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