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 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.
Job Description
We are looking for a talented engineer for the development team, working in Secure Web Gateway and Firewall technologies of "Zscaler Internet Access" (ZIA) product. This role requires a deep understanding and knowledge of distributed data management. This is an excellent opportunity to enable a fast-growing engineering team of a massively scalable product that has redefined how Security services are delivered.
Responsibilities:

• Design and Develop components of Zscalers Distributed state management framework for global scale.
• Analyze fault-tolerance and high availability issues, performance and scale challenges, and solve them.
• Enhance the existing distributed framework for better instrumentation, performance and stability.
• Operational readiness, escalation handling for the Zscaler distributed state management framework.
• Developing and owning components of software products with a keen sense for high performance and scalability
• Work with QA engineering teams to investigate and resolve production issues
• You will be expected to participate in all phases of the product development cycle, from definition, design, through implementation and test
• Develop functional specifications, assess task requirements and scheduling, and participate in the development, debug and support

Qualifications:

• 5 years experience and proficiency in Software Development.
• Strong coding skills in C & C programming languages.
• Basic understanding of various algorithms to achieve distributed consensus, Leader election, distributed lock etc.
• Basic understanding of trade-offs between consistency and availability while analyzing the resource costs to achieve them.
• Past experience with distributed consistent hash frameworks is highly desirable.
• Good Understanding of low level operating systems concepts including multi-threading, memory management, networking and storage, performance and scale
• Experience with code repositories like git/subversion and build systems. Knowledge of the Makefile system is highly desirable.
• Strong in Computer Science fundamentals, Algorithms and Data Structures
• Excellent verbal, written and interpersonal skills
• Self-starter takes initiative & ownership, identifies and completes tasks; goal driven

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Base Pay Range
$148,750-$175,000 USD
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