Senior Staff Software Engineer - Golang, Javascript
Confirmed live in the last 24 hours
Zscaler
Compensation
$154,000 - $220,000/year
Job Description
About Zscaler
Zscaler is a pioneer and global leader in zero trust security. The world’s largest businesses, critical infrastructure organizations, and government agencies rely on Zscaler to secure users, branches, applications, data & devices, and to accelerate digital transformation initiatives. Distributed across more than 160 data centers globally, the Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange platform combined with advanced AI combats billions of cyber threats and policy violations every day and unlocks productivity gains for modern enterprises by reducing costs and complexity.
Here, impact in your role matters more than title and trust is built on results. 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 champion an “AI Forward, People First” philosophy to help us accelerate and innovate, empowering our people to embrace their potential. If you’re driven by purpose, thrive on solving complex challenges and want to make a positive difference on a global scale, we invite you to bring your talents to Zscaler to help shape the future of cybersecurity.
Role
We are looking for a Senior Staff Software Engineer to join our team. This is a remote role, reporting to the Director of Software Engineering within the Platform Convergence department. Our Engineering team built the world’s largest cloud security platform from the ground up, and we keep building. You will bring your vision and passion to our team of cloud architects and security experts who are enabling organizations worldwide to harness speed and agility with a cloud-first strategy.
What you’ll do (Role Expectations)
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Designing and implementing scalable, high-performance backend services and APIs using Go, integrating with databases like PostgreSQL, AWS Athena, Trino, and Redis
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Writing and maintaining unit, integration, and performance tests to ensure code quality while monitoring, debugging, and optimizing system performance
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Mentoring junior engineers, fostering their growth and success, and actively participating in code reviews to uphold best practices
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Collaborating with external teams to deliver integrated solutions and ensure seamless system functionality
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Contributing to Agile/Scrum processes, including sprint planning and retrospectives, to drive project success
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 challenge culture by giving and receiving ongoing feedback—knowing that candor delivered with c