
Senior Staff Software Development Engineer
Zscaler
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: San Jose • California • United 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