Staff Software Engineer - Isolation Experience

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.

You will work on the Cloud Browser Isolation team which is a distributed team that works fast and lives on the cutting edge of backend, frontend and infrastructure software engineering. We favor open-source reuse but we are not afraid of building stuff ourselves where it makes sense. Our philosophy is: done is better than perfect and we strive to work iteratively and improve our code along the way so that we can deliver fast and reliably to delight our customers. The work environment is fast-paced and requires the ability to take initiative and manage ambiguity to drive effective results. This role may interface with customers, subject matter experts, technical experts, developers and QA engineers located globally and in different time zones.

The Staff Software Engineer will report to the Sr. Manager, Software Engineering. Zscaler is looking for a seasoned and agile software engineer that has a unique combination of skills. The ideal candidate will play a key role in all phases of the product development cycle, from definition, design, through implementation, test, release and monitor of components of our Browser Isolation Platform. This is an excellent opportunity to join small, dynamic team that is working on cutting edge Browser Isolation technology to evolve our current cloud security flagship products: ZIA and ZPA.

About the Isolation Experience team

The team's mission is to ensure a seamless isolation experience for our users. That is: develop, maintain and improve parity with native experience, session spin up performance and enhance with isolation specific user experience.

Responsibilities:

• Complete ownership of multiple components definition, design, implementation, testing, delivery and monitor, according to the team's area of responsibility.
• Analyze product requirements and translating into a feasible technical solution.
• Design highly available and scalable solutions with security in mind for public cloud applications.
• Write correct, maintainable, testable, secure, performant and reliable code of our current components and future components.
• Write unit / integration / e2e / performance / resilience tests where it makes sense and integrate them in our CI flow.
• Build quick MVPs / POCs to validate technical solutions.
• Act as a mentor and a leader to all (especially junior) team members.

Requirements:

**8+ years of experience in software engineering with a minimum of 4 years in developing JavaScript/TypeScript based solutions for Node.js, web, desktop or mobile.Must be proficient in JavaScript/TypeScriptAble to design and build protocol based services.****Must have: RESTful APIs and solid understanding of HTTP protocol.****Nice to have: gRPC, WebSocket, Thrift, etc.**Comfortable with scoping effort and estimating development tasks.

• Solid understanding of systems design, programming principles, DOM, HTML, CSS.

Nice to haves:

• Experience working with JS desktop apps is a plus

• Experience with transpilers and bundlers is a plus

• Experience programming in Golang

• Experience working with React / Vanilla JS is a plus.

• Experience in developing media streaming products is a plus.

• Experience with container technologies like Docker and container orchestration like Kubernetes is a plus

• Experience with working with automation tools for code quality, testing, CI/CD is a plus.

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