Principal Software Engineer - Python, Kubernetes

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

1. Design, develop and maintain automation tools for Infrastructure management, monitoring and Scalability.
2. Design, extend, and review APIs needed for Infrastructure and Software deployment in Public/Private clouds for a complex cloud service consisting of VMs, containers and various AWS PaaS components.
3. Partner with software engineers to meet the needs of bootstrapping and maintaining container run time environments.
4. Partner with software engineers to design, develop and maintain test harnesses and environments to simulate performance and scalability scenarios.
5. Participate in agile/iterative development cycles with emphasis on code quality, supportability, scalability, and performance.

Qualifications

1. 10+ years of experience in a highly-distributed and enterprise scale mission critical environments.
2. Current hands-on experience in building Services with Python. Experience with functional programming experience with Golang or Java is a plus.
3. Hands-on experience in building and maintaining production SaaS environments.
4. Excellent communication skills with strong computer science fundamentals.
5. Experience with K8S, ArgoCD.
6. Experience with CI/CD tools integration.
7. Working knowledge of cloud infrastructure services on AWS/Hybrid cloud.
8. Ability to learn, evaluate, document and adopt new technologies.

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

Base Pay Range
$162,500 — $240,000 USD

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