Sr Staff Software Development Engineer (API)

Zscaler · Bengaluru · 8+ yrs experience · Posted 2026-07-18

Tech stack: C++, Go, Java, JavaScript, Rust, C

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About the role

Responsibilities:
- We are looking for a Sr Staff Software Development Engineer to join our team.
- This is a hybrid role, reporting to the Senior Manager Software Development Engineering in the Unified API platform team department.
- You will join an engineering powerhouse that built the world's largest cloud security platform from the ground up, supporting over 15 million users across 185 countries.
- This role invites you to bring your vision for cloud architecture and scalable services to a team dedicated to helping organizations harness speed and agility through a cloud-first strategy.
- Delivering a unified API and developer platform for Zscaler products, focusing on standardization, governance, and a seamless developer experience
- Creating and refining API development and integration processes, tools, and methodologies across Zscaler's product portfolio
- Leading the creation of a scalable distributed API platform, ensuring it is highly available, observable, and operable
Qualifications:
- Foundational understanding of AI/ML technologies and experience leveraging, securing, or positioning AI-driven solutions to optimize outcomes within your functional domain
- Extensive experience in the architecture, design, and development of API frameworks and technologies, with 8+ years of experience, including proven experience creating SDKs and designing APIs
- Deep knowledge of API design standards, best practices, and API-first design principles
- Strong background in message brokers, caches, queues, and pub/sub concepts
- Proficiency in at least one programming language such as Go, Java, C++, Rust, or JavaScript
- Experience designing and implementing AI-driven API gateways, LLM orchestration layers, or intelligent developer automation tools to optimize platform scale and governance
- Demonstrated ability to collaborate with product managers on external-facing products and roadmap development
- Experience working dynamically with cross-functional teams to drive product innovation

Qualifications

- Foundational understanding of AI/ML technologies and experience leveraging, securing, or positioning AI-driven solutions to optimize outcomes within your functional domain
- Extensive experience in the architecture, design, and development of API frameworks and technologies, with 8+ years of experience, including proven experience creating SDKs and designing APIs
- Deep knowledge of API design standards, best practices, and API-first design principles
- Strong background in message brokers, caches, queues, and pub/sub concepts
- Proficiency in at least one programming language such as Go, Java, C++, Rust, or JavaScript
- Experience designing and implementing AI-driven API gateways, LLM orchestration layers, or intelligent developer automation tools to optimize platform scale and governance
- Demonstrated ability to collaborate with product managers on external-facing products and roadmap development
- Experience working dynamically with cross-functional teams to drive product innovation

Responsibilities

- We are looking for a Sr Staff Software Development Engineer to join our team.
- This is a hybrid role, reporting to the Senior Manager Software Development Engineering in the Unified API platform team department.
- You will join an engineering powerhouse that built the world's largest cloud security platform from the ground up, supporting over 15 million users across 185 countries.
- This role invites you to bring your vision for cloud architecture and scalable services to a team dedicated to helping organizations harness speed and agility through a cloud-first strategy.
- Delivering a unified API and developer platform for Zscaler products, focusing on standardization, governance, and a seamless developer experience
- Creating and refining API development and integration processes, tools, and methodologies across Zscaler's product portfolio
- Leading the creation of a scalable distributed API platform, ensuring it is highly available, observable, and operable

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