Sr. Software Development Engineer - Orchestration Platform, Temporal, Fleet Management (Flexibility on level)

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Zscaler

San Jose, California, USA

Hybrid

Posted April 23, 2026

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 Software Engineer (Reliability) to join our team in San Jose, CA, reporting to the Vice President of Engineering. This is a hybrid role three days a week onsite within the Service Platform Automation department.

You will build and operate the orchestration and reliability automation that manages ZIA’s fleet lifecycle at massive scale. This is a high-ownership role: you will design and implement orchestration workflows and the supporting services needed for safe, deterministic, idempotent fleet operations—while helping the team evolve toward AI-first execution and operations.

What you’ll do (Role Expectations)

Replace legacy Python/Ansible with a centralized, deterministic orchestration platform, refactoring automation into modular, well-defined workflows while retiring external dependencies and nested logic
Engineer execution patterns with retries, idempotency, rate limits/backpressure, and safe rollbacks/compensation designs aligned to global fleet capacity
Implement safe rollouts using segmentation, canaries, and automated health checks to limit blast radius during fleet-wide upgrades and remediation
Add strong observability and auditability (metrics, traces, replayable histories), participate in on-call rotation, and drive software based fixes to reduce toil following post-incident reviews
Integrate AI/LLM capabilities to accelerate legacy code migration and enhance safe operational outcomes through intelligent triage, correlation, and automated runbook generation

Who You Are (Success Profile)

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.
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.
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.
You are a high-trust collaborator. You are ambitious for the team, not just yourself. You embrace our challenge culture by giving and receiving ongoing feedback—knowing that candor delivered with clarity and respect is the truest form of teamwork and the fastest way to earn trust.
You are a learner. You have a true growth mindset and are obsessed with your own development, actively seeking feedback to