Senior Manager, Software Development Engineering

About Zscaler

Zscaler accelerates digital transformation so our customers can be more agile, efficient, resilient, and secure. Our cloud native Zero Trust Exchange platform protects thousands of customers from cyberattacks and data loss by securely connecting users, devices, and applications in any location.

Here, impact in your role matters more than title and trust is built on results. We believe in transparency and value constructive, honest debate—we’re focused on getting to the best ideas, faster. We build high-performing teams that can make an impact quickly and with high quality. To do this, we are building a culture of execution centered on customer obsession, collaboration, ownership and accountability. 

We value high-impact, high-accountability with a sense of urgency where you’re enabled to do your best work and embrace your potential. If you’re driven by purpose, thrive on solving complex challenges and want to make a positive difference on a global scale, we invite you to bring your talents to Zscaler and help shape the future of cybersecurity.

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.

The Zero Trust Exchange team seeks a Sr. Manager of Software Engineering to oversee Identity and Access control infrastructure while leading a dynamic team advancing Zero Trust technology and flagship cloud security products. Manage development, quality, and collaborate globally with architects, product managers, developers, and engineers for successful production delivery.

This role will be reporting to the Sr. Director, Engineering and you'll be responsible for:

• Promoting the product vision internally and externally as the representative of the company, product, and team at all levels
• Collaborating with product management to develop roadmaps, identify gaps, and implement changes for improved outcomes
• Designing solutions and implement with cloud reliability / availability / scalability / security in mind
• Working with teams and experts to ensure project requirements are met and delivered efficiently
• Contributing to budget planning by assessing resource needs, hardware requirements, metrics, and costs for cloud services

What We're Looking for (Minimum Qualifications)

• Hold a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science with 13+ years of experience in development, enterprise services, networking, and security across large organizations and startups
• Experienced in building control plane systems on globally distributed databases and skilled in authentication and authorization mechanisms like SAML, OAUTH, LDAP, and SCIM
• Skilled in integrating software systems using distributed message queues like RabbitMQ/Kafka and distributed caches like Redis/Memcached
• Proficient in distributed systems and data replication protocols like Paxos variants, with expertise in databases like DynamoDB, Cassandra, and Google Spanner
• Experienced with public cloud providers like AWS, Azure, and GCP, with skills in bootstrapping cloud entities and building service mesh

What Will Make You Stand Out (Preferred Qualifications)

• Skilled in using Kubernetes for orchestrating containerized applications and managing microservices architecture

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