Staff Software Development Engineer - Golang

About Zscaler

Serving thousands of enterprise customers around the world including 40% of Fortune 500 companies, Zscaler (NASDAQ: ZS) 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. As the operator of the world’s largest security cloud, Zscaler accelerates digital transformation so enterprises can be more agile, efficient, resilient, and secure. The pioneering, AI-powered Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange™ platform, which is found in our SASE and SSE offerings, protects thousands of enterprise customers from cyberattacks and data loss by securely connecting users, devices, and applications in any location.

Named a Best Workplace in Technology by Fortune and others, Zscaler fosters an inclusive and supportive culture that is home to some of the brightest minds in the industry. If you thrive in an environment that is fast-paced and collaborative, and you are passionate about building and innovating for the greater good, come make your next move with Zscaler. 

• Designing and implementing highly scalable, microservices
• Writing optimized code using efficient algorithms; designing and implementing backend application interfaces for data and services
• Designing and developing integration solutions
• Collaborating with product team to define software requirements for programming effort; collaborate with a cross-functional team of engineers to build SaaS products for large-data processing
• Leading/Contributing to the entire feature development lifecycle, all the way from design, implementation, production operations

• Proficiency in Golang programming, Data structures/Algorithms & debugging skills in cloud environment; excellent programming and data structure skills
• Strong knowledge of design patterns, data structures and software engineering best practices
• Hands-on experience with popular public cloud services infrastructure offerings such as AWS, GCP, Azure
• Experience with SQL and NoSQL data stores
• Experience developing microservices using Kubernetes on any of the large cloud platforms like Azure, AWS, GCP

What Will Make You Stand Out (Preferred Qualifications)

• Experience in developing multi-tenant/Enterprise SaaS products, API Management, API design, performance optimization and experience with event-driven and streaming data applications
• Thorough understanding of agile development and continuous integration/delivery patterns; understanding of web security best practices
• Strong operating system, virtual machine, and container knowledge, Good working knowledge of Unix/Linux/Windows systems and OS internals

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