Principal Software Engineer - Backend (Java/Spring)

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.

Responsibilities:

• Develop high-quality software that is performant, scalable, reusable, extensible, secure, supportable, reliable
• Write microservices, develop and extend in-house APIs, write client-side code which interacts with other APIs (RESTful and SDKs)
• Design and implement scalable, high-availability distributed systems using Kafka and ElasticSearch
• Optimize system performance and ensure reliability and security
• Work with front-end engineers to understand user requirements and provide endpoints that help accomplish building appealing interfaces.
• Develop and maintain a scalable web and responsive applications
• Monitor system health and troubleshoot issues as they arise
• Exhibit DevOps mindset - Work on continuous integration, including provisioning, deployment, testing, and version control of the software
• Mentor new software developers and junior engineers

Qualifications:

• Passionate software developer with 12+ years of hands-on software application development experience
• Demonstrated Experience in Cloud Computing using AWS, GCP or other cloud providers
• Working experience with Java and Spring frameworks such as Spring Webflux, Spring Cloud, Spring Security, etc
• Containerization experience with applications deployed on Docker or Kubernetes
• Minimum 5 years of experience with distributed systems like Kafka and Elasticsearch
• Proven experience in designing and implementing scalable distributed systems
• Experience with Git or other version control systems, Test-driven development (TDD)
• Ability to quickly adapt & independently work in a fast-paced Agile environment with minimum supervision.

Desired:

• Experience with data analysis and data analytics tools
• Experience with NoSQL databases, messaging services and in-memory cache is a big advantage

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