Our Engineering team built the world's largest cloud security platform from the ground up, and we keep building. With more than 100 patents and big plans for enhancing services and increasing our global footprint, the team has made us and our multitenant architecture today's cloud security leader, with more than 15 million users in 185 countries. Bring your vision and passion to our team of cloud architects, software engineers, security experts, and more who are enabling organizations worldwide to harness speed and agility with a cloud-first strategy.

As a Principal Software Engineer - Cloud Connector, you will play a crucial role in developing and enhancing functionality for ZScaler Cloud Connector. Cloud Connector provides Zero Trust Security for workloads, hosted in a public cloud environment either for cloud-cloud, cloud to private datacenter traffic communications.

We're looking for an experienced Principal Software Engineer to join our ZTNA team. Reporting to the Sr. Director, Engineering, you'll be responsible for:

• Partner with Product Management to guide detailed product requirements and define software design specifications and implement bug free code using test-driven methodology.
• Look for opportunities to refactor existing code in the interests of maintainability and reusability and collaborate with other engineering teams (security, UI, platform, analytics and quality assurance)
• Diagnose complex customer issues and take ownership of issue resolution
• Lead a group of junior engineers on technical guidance, mentoring and also help with development details.

What We're Looking for (Minimum Qualifications)

• Minimum 12+ years software development experience building large-scale public cloud commercial networking and security applications and experience with software design concepts
• Proficiency coding in either Python or Golang is required, along with data structures/Algorithms & debugging skills in cloud environment along with Unix/Linux Kernel & file system knowledge
• Knowledge of networking protocols and services - DNS, HTTP, TCP/IP, SSL/TLS and experience working with AWS/Azure/GCP networking, namely - transit gateway, IGW, NATGW, NACL, security groups. GWLB, ILB, Route53, Azure DNS.
• BS degree in CS/CE or equivalent is required. In addition, U.S. citizenship is required for this position due to the nature of the customers assigned to this role.

What Will Make You Stand Out (Preferred Qualifications)

• C coding skills
• Familiarity with Identity management and authentication, and/or knowledge of Firewall policy enforcement and traffic forwarding rules and good
• Prior experience with building solutions for 'software as a Service' platform and solving for workload segmentation requirements by applying cloud native infrastructure services.

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