About the job
About ZscalerZscaler (NASDAQ: ZS) accelerates digital transformation so that customers can be more agile, efficient, resilient, and secure. The Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange is the company’s 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. Zscaler’s purpose-built security platform puts a company’s defenses and controls where the connections occur—the internet—so that every connection is fast and secure, no matter how or where users connect or where their applications and workloads reside.
The Staff Software Engineer will be part of a highly talented team that has built a groundbreaking “In the Cloud”; web, DNS and firewall security solution. High performance and scalability are the hallmarks of this highly distributed and multi-tenant cloud. Please apply only if you have a penchant for code, comfortable guiding a small team of engineers and love to take ownership of a larger component and be accountable for it.
We develop innovative solutions that are transforming the internet security business, and millions of users rely on our services for data protection and comprehensive security. We also provide real-time analytics to our customers for unmatched visibility and maintain a state-of-the-art NOC. The development team works on web filtering, policy enforcement, next-gen firewall, sandboxing, DLP, and mobile user solutions. Being responsive to our customers and delivering industry-leading mission-critical solutions require precise engineering and a philosophy of continuous improvement, both areas in which Zscaler engineers excel.
Nanolog is Zscaler’s big data stack. It was purpose-built from scratch to deal with several billions of events originating from Zscaler’s distributed proxy and firewall enforcement nodes located in several data centers across the globe. Nanolog uses patented technology to reduce log volume by 10 to 50 times with several compression techniques. Not only does the platform collects and store logs, but it also provides rich real-time analytics capabilities that power a variety of dashboards for customers. Customers are empowered to discover and analyze all their traffic that flows through Zscaler’s distributed proxy network in real-time. The platform also caters to the data mining requirements of Zscaler’s security research team who scour through the mountain of data always on the lookout for new threats emerging on the internet.
The data-mining platform is also purpose-built using map-reduce techniques and exposes a SQL-like query language. For those customers who like to have a copy of these logs, the Nanolog platform can also stream these logs in real-time from Zscaler’s cloud to customer’s premises.
Responsibilities/What You’ll Do
- Design, Develop and test enhancements to the Zscaler Nanolog service. Key areas of improvement include:
- Log collection and streaming to 3rd parties
- Efficient storage and compression algorithms
- High speed log aggregation
- Extending and optimizing the proprietary Zscaler Query Language
- Implementing alerts on a massive scale
- Profile code and improve the efficiency of hot spots
- Troubleshoot issues in Zscaler production
- Mentor junior engineers
- 9+ years of software development experience with expertise in C/C++ programming
- Working knowledge of any Unix system
- Strong understanding of Algorithms and Data Structures
- Good understanding of distributed systems
- Experience building scalable systems with a strong understanding of high-performance computing, event-based programming, multi-threading, memory optimization, fault Tolerance, etc
- Experience developing large, maintainable software product architectures
- Excellent debugging and troubleshooting skills.
- Strong software design, profiling and verification skills
- Ability to handle multiple tasks, prioritize and meet deadlines
- Ability to work and thrive in a geographically distributed team
- Knowledge of TCP/IP, HTTP protocols is preferred
- BS degree or higher strongly preferred
- Knowledge of database kernels
Zscaler is proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all of our employees. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy or related medical conditions), age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristics protected by federal, state, or local laws.
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