Staff Software Engineer

Bellevue, WA, United States

About Zscaler

Zscaler (NASDAQ: ZS) accelerates digital transformation so that customers can be more agile, efficient, resilient, and secure. The Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange is the companys cloud-native platform that protects thousands of customers from cyberattacks and data loss by securely connecting users, devices, and applications in any location.

With more than 10 years of experience developing, operating, and scaling the cloud, Zscaler serves thousands of enterprise customers around the world, including 450 of the Forbes Global 2000 organizations. In addition to protecting customers from damaging threats, such as ransomware and data exfiltration, it helps them slash costs, reduce complexity, and improve the user experience by eliminating stacks of latency-creating gateway appliances.

Zscaler was founded in 2007 with a mission to make the cloud a safe place to do business and a more enjoyable experience for enterprise users. Zscalers purpose-built security platform puts a companys defenses and controls where the connections occurthe internetso that every connection is fast and secure, no matter how or where users connect or where their applications and workloads reside.

About a role ZScaler is expanding the business into the US federal space and regulated industries. We are looking for a seasoned software developer with a strong platform engineering background. In this role you will architect and build a CI/CD system that delivers all Zscaler services to be deployed and operated by a 3rd party. You will partner with engineering and ops organizations across all products to onboard them and standardize CI/CD technology for infrastructure and software services. You will design and deliver cloud build-out automation for Zscaler to run unattended. You will partner closely with compliance and security organizations to develop automation of checks across the pipelines - from source control submission to final artifact production, that ensures Zscaler binaries meet stringent requirements. Your work is mission critical for Zscaler and offers tremendous growth opportunities.

Job Description

Develop and operate a shared infrastructure automation that delivers artifacts into US federal, regulated and sovereign cloud environments

Elevate security posture of CI and CD systems, harden change management and flight control process through automation.

Define and enforce DevOps standards, best practices and procedures across engineering organization

Ensure compliance with federal guidelines and regulations from feature design to delivery

Automate build-out of new Zscaler clouds from infrastructure to services

Measure engineering and ops productivity and drive improvement

Design and build delivery mechanism for operational collateral (alerts, runbooks, etc.) to the federal environment for hands-off operation by 3rd party.

Participate in on-call rotation to support a highly available engineering platform.

Basic Qualifications Bachelor of Science, Engineering, IT or equivalent

5+ years of commercial services development experience

5+ years of public cloud experience (either of AWS, Azure)

Infrastructure as Code (ie Terraform, Ansible, etc.)

Virtualization (VMWave, Hyper-V, etc.) and container based orchestration (Kubernetes)

Expertise in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems

US resident

Preferred Qualifications Experience working within High/Moderate FedRamp authorization levels, IL5/IL6 is a plus

Experience with the monthly continuous monitoring program of scanning, evaluating, patching and reporting on environment vulnerabilities.

Experience with multiple cloud providers (AWS and Azure)

Experience with relational and non-relational databases as backend stores for microservices.

Zscalers salary ranges are benchmarked and are determined by role and level. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations and could be higher or lower based on a multitude of factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

The base salary range listed for this full-time position excludes commission/ bonus/ equity (if applicable) + benefits.

Base Pay Range $178,000$210,000 USD By applying for this role, you adhere to applicable laws, regulations, and Zscaler policies, including those related to security and privacy standards and guidelines.

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