Zscaler

Senior Staff Software Development Engineer

Zscaler

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: San JoseCaliforniaUnited States

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Salary

💰 $154,000 - $220,000 per year

Job Level

About the role

  • Architect and deliver scalable microservices on EKS (GoLang): design, build, and operate production services that meet uptime, latency, and scale goals
  • Build event-driven pipelines with Kafka and MQTT: implement asynchronous workflows that are resilient, observable, and easy to evolve as product needs change
  • Design high-performance data models and access patterns: optimize ingest and querying across RDS MySQL, Neo4J, and ElasticSearch for correctness, speed, and cost efficiency
  • Harden production readiness and operational excellence: establish monitoring, alerting, tracing, and on-call standards; drive root-cause fixes and reliability improvements
  • Lead cross-team delivery and technical direction: align stakeholders, break down complex work, and execute quickly while maintaining a high bar for quality and security

Requirements

  • Senior-level backend engineering experience designing and shipping highly scalable microservices in production developed in Go
  • Proven experience with event-driven, asynchronous architectures using messaging/streaming platforms such as Kafka
  • Strong data engineering and persistence skills building efficient ingest and query patterns across relational databases (MySQL) plus at least one of ElasticSearch or Neo4J
  • Hands-on experience running services on Kubernetes (ideally EKS), including deployment, troubleshooting, and operational ownership.
Benefits
  • Various health plans
  • Time off plans for vacation and sick time
  • Parental leave options
  • Retirement options
  • Education reimbursement
  • In-office perks, and more!
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard Skills & Tools
GoLangmicroservicesevent-driven architectureKafkaMQTTRDS MySQLNeo4JElasticSearchKubernetesEKS
Soft Skills
leadershipstakeholder alignmentcomplex problem solvingquality assurancesecurity awareness