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Principal Software Engineer - Automation - Python | Pytest

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.

Job Description

Zscaler is looking for highly motivated and talented Principal Software Engineer to join the ZPA Engineering team.

You will be responsible for writing frameworks and tools to test products. It is a very unique and challenging role and provides immense opportunity to design and develop wide-reaching tools. It combines the "building" aspect of software design engineering with the "breaking" aspect of software test engineering. You'll be writing code that automatically verifies the quality of the product. That means that you potentially write more code than the developers.
The ideal candidate is creative thinker, problem solver, teacher, learner, and is motivated with engineering excellence.

Qualifications

Basic Qualification:

  • Minimum 15 years of working on systems, or/and distributed systems with a focus on networking/firewall technologies, and cloud infrastructure

  • Knowledge of AWS or similar cloud computing platforms

  • Knowledge of virtual environments like OVA, Docker containers, Kubernetes

  • Knowledge of building automation framework.

  • Hands-on experience in Python or similar scripting languages.

  • Experience with Open source tools and technologies, code repos.

  • Strong Unix/Linux OS experience

  • Demonstrates reasonable expertise in software development and development automation

  • Working experience with REST and GraphQL APIs.

  • Outstanding written and verbal communication skills.

  • Self-motivated, a strong team player.

  • Excellent communication, collaboration, reporting, analytical and problem

  • A BS/MS degree in computer science or related field.

Good to have:

  • Understanding of TCP/IP protocol stack, HTTP, TLS, PKI and other related protocols and products (DNS, DHCP, VPN, HA, routing and switching)

  • Understanding of security technologies like firewall, IPS, Authentication,VPN

  • Working knowledge of IP Tables, IP Sets and/or Windows Filtering Platforms is a plus

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

Zscaler is proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all of our employees. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy or related medical conditions), age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristics protected by federal, state, or local laws.

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Zscaler is committed to providing reasonable support (called accommodations or adjustments) in our recruiting processes for candidates who are differently abled, have long term conditions, mental health conditions or sincerely held religious beliefs, or who are neurodivergent or require pregnancy-related support.