Sr. Software Development Engineer

Zscaler · India · 3+ yrs experience · Posted 2026-07-18

Tech stack: AWS, Azure, Elasticsearch, Java, Kafka, Kubernetes, Redis, Postgres

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About the role

Responsibilities:
- We are looking for a Sr Software Development Engineer to join our team.
- This is a hybrid role, reporting to the Senior Director of Software Engineering in the Engineering department.
- You will join the Engineering team that built the world’s largest cloud security platform from the ground up.
- Understand how to build and operate high scale systems
- Provide service and product wide architectural guidance, and drive impactful technical decisions
- Establish and enforce best practices for coding, testing, observability, and CI/CD pipelines to maintain high-quality, production-ready services
- Drive cross-team collaboration and lead initiatives in performance optimization, reliability improvements, and adoption of new technologies/tools to accelerate feature velocity
Qualifications:
- Demonstrated curiosity and active exploration of AI tools, with a proven history of integrating new technologies to enhance daily workflows and augment problem-solving
- 3+ years of experience in Java coding in a highly distributed and enterprise-scale environment with experience in Kafka, Druid, ElasticSearch
- Experience being on-call and dealing with cloud incidents and writing RCAs
- Working knowledge of cloud infrastructure services on AWS or Azure
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
- Experience building full CI/CD systems leveraging Kubernetes and web service frameworks
- Experience building reliable and extensible data tiers for large-scale web services using Postgres and Redis
- Experience with identity and access management systems like Okta, SAML protocols, and security services knowledge of OAuth

Qualifications

- Demonstrated curiosity and active exploration of AI tools, with a proven history of integrating new technologies to enhance daily workflows and augment problem-solving
- 3+ years of experience in Java coding in a highly distributed and enterprise-scale environment with experience in Kafka, Druid, ElasticSearch
- Experience being on-call and dealing with cloud incidents and writing RCAs
- Working knowledge of cloud infrastructure services on AWS or Azure
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
- Experience building full CI/CD systems leveraging Kubernetes and web service frameworks
- Experience building reliable and extensible data tiers for large-scale web services using Postgres and Redis
- Experience with identity and access management systems like Okta, SAML protocols, and security services knowledge of OAuth

Responsibilities

- We are looking for a Sr Software Development Engineer to join our team.
- This is a hybrid role, reporting to the Senior Director of Software Engineering in the Engineering department.
- You will join the Engineering team that built the world’s largest cloud security platform from the ground up.
- Understand how to build and operate high scale systems
- Provide service and product wide architectural guidance, and drive impactful technical decisions
- Establish and enforce best practices for coding, testing, observability, and CI/CD pipelines to maintain high-quality, production-ready services
- Drive cross-team collaboration and lead initiatives in performance optimization, reliability improvements, and adoption of new technologies/tools to accelerate feature velocity

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