Zscaler is seeking an experienced and highly motivated Staff Software Engineer of API and Cloud Platform to join our team. This Unified API platform will offer a world class developer experience and power all ZScaler current and new products for high availability and scalability. The Staff Engineer in this space will develop a deep understanding of ZScaler’s current suite of products (ZIA, ZPA etc) in-order to build a new unified API platform to meet the needs of ZScaler current and future products. This role requires the understanding of large scale distributed systems and the enablement of developers with APIs and SDKs. 

The Staff Engineer will establish the strategy and execution plan to achieve convergence of current as well as new ZScaler products on top of the new unified API platform and gracefully manage the transition of customers to the new implementations by striking the right balance between feature velocity and not blocking business launches yet also avoiding accrual of technical debt and throwaway work.

The ideal candidate will lead the development and delivery of a suite of public and private API’s across the organization. To do this effectively requires setting a strategy that provides value in both the near and long-term, and aligning VP and SVP level stakeholders on the vision and plan. The Staff Engineer must possess a broad and deep understanding of the network security, embedded/hardware security, cryptography, web and network protocols. The Staff Engineer will be responsible for mentoring and guiding a high-performance and diverse engineering team while fostering a culture of innovation and continuous learning. 

Responsibilities: 

• Design and develop a language-agnostic framework to build a family of best in class APIs to serve both external and internal developers. 
• Leads a cross-functional team of engineers in delivering a first of its kind data/api platform for all of ZScaler products, both current and future. 
• Ensure that the teams within the ZScaler platform and product teams are aligned to a coherent technical vision and deliver systems that fit well together.
• Develop process and tooling for the API definition and development across the ZScaler family of products.
• Develop and maintain strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including auditors, regulators, and vendors.
• Responsible for reviewing and guiding the team on scalable and highly secure architecture that meets current and future business needs.
• Works closely with peers, delivery managers and team on process standardization and innovation.
• Actively mentor Senior and Staff engineers to develop and institutionalize best practices

Preferred Qualifications:

• Should have a minimum of 10 years of experience in Networking or Cloud Security products.
• Should have a minimum of 10 years of hands-on experience in application development using Java.
• Should have experience in leading development teams in multiple geo locations.
• Expert-level technical knowledge: Enterprise Java, OOP, OOA, systems architecture and RESTful APIs, and related frameworks, relational and NoSQL databases, CI/CD (tools and processes)
• Development experience with RDBMS and NoSQL database (fluent with SQL programming, Stored Procedures).
• Hands-on experience architecting and supporting highly scalable cloud-based solutions
• Hands-on experience creating and optimizing scalable REST applications for a public cloud.
• Ability to operate effectively and independently in a dynamic, fluid environment.
• Knowledge on Security, Authentication/Authorization and encryption best practices
• A detail-oriented and highly organized person with the ability to juggle multiple priorities and parallel projects
• Strong team leadership skills, including the ability to mentor, motivate and influence others.
• Advanced coding skills in Java, REST APIs.