Principal Software Engineer (Data Products)
San Jose, CA 
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Posted 17 days ago
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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.

We are hiring a Principal Software Engineer in Data Engineering to create Zscaler's Business Insights product. Business Insights is a new initiative where we provide deep insights to our customers helping them make better business decisions by leveraging a ton of telemetry.

Responsibilities:

  • Design and build multi-tenant systems capable of loading and transforming large volumes of structured and semi-structured fast-moving data
  • Build a robust and scalable data platform to support the needs of Business Insights use cases
  • Work with product management, marketing, security, UX/UI, and data teams to identify requirements and evolve Business Insights features
  • Extract entities of interest pertaining to a business need and create relationship models that best serve the analytics needs

Minimum Qualifications:

  • 12+ years of software development.
  • 5+ years of experience in building high-performance data processing infrastructure taking into account concurrency, latency, and efficiency by profiling, reviewing logs, etc
  • 10+ years of experience in building data/analytics driven applications
  • Must be proficient with coding in Java (5+ years) and Python, some Go will be a plus
  • Experience in Big Data integration via Hadoop. Expert in data modeling and database design with strong knowledge in Hive/KQL/SQL query
  • Experience architecting systems following the REST architectural style
  • Experience in working with RabbitMQ, Kafka, or other messaging queue approach
  • Experience in cloud architecture, such as Azure, AWS, or GCP. Experience in Docker and Kubernetes is a plus
  • Experience building connectors to bring in 3rd party data from various SaaS applications
  • Excellent interpersonal, technical, and communication skills
  • Ability to learn, evaluate, and adopt new technologies
  • Ability to prioritize multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment
  • Metrics-driven development experience and experience using metrics systems like Grafana, Prometheus, etc
  • BS Computer Science or Equivalent

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Ability to write code that can perform efficiently in a big data setup
  • Strong knowledge of various DBMS systems including NoSQL architectures and design principles
  • Experience tuning JVM for optimal application performance
  • Successfully delivered software products from ideation through to implementation and support
  • Understanding of statistics and machine learning (optional)

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Base Pay Range
$210,000$240,000 USD

By applying for this role, you adhere to applicable laws, regulations, and Zscaler policies,including thoserelatedtosecurity and privacy standards and guidelines.

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Job Summary
Company
Start Date
As soon as possible
Employment Term and Type
Regular, Full Time
Required Experience
10+ years
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