Senior Staff Backend Engineer, Provisioning Platform

Zscaler; San Jose (CA); Hybrid; USD 154,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health plans

Time off plans

Parental leave options

Retirement options

Education reimbursement

In-office perks, and more!

Job summary

Zscaler is seeking a Sr. Staff Software Development Engineer, Provisioning Platform, to join our Zero Trust Exchange. This hybrid role is based in San Jose, CA (HQ) and reports to the Sr.

Director of Software Development Engineering. You will architect and build the next-generation provisioning platform powering SKU provisioning, entitlement management, and subscription lifecycle across Zscaler products, with a focus on scalable backend services, API-first design, and AI-assisted user

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience building large-scale backend, platform, distributed systems, or cloud-native applications.
• Strong backend development experience with Java and Spring Boot, including building production-grade microservices and APIs.
• Experience with distributed systems concepts such as resiliency, idempotency, retries, fault tolerance, transactional workflows, eventual consistency, and durable state management.
• Experience with API-first platform development using REST, gRPC, OpenAPI, OAuth2, JWT, RBAC, audit logging, and secure service-to-service communication.
• Experience with cloud-native and event-driven technologies such as Kubernetes, Docker, Kafka/RabbitMQ, PostgreSQL, Redis, CI/CD pipelines, observability, and production operations.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and development of scalable backend services for provisioning, licensing, entitlements, approvals, orchestration workflows, and subscription lifecycle management.
• Build API-first platform services using Java/Spring Boot, REST, gRPC, OpenAPI, OAuth2, JWT, and secure service-to-service communication.
• Architect resilient workflow-driven systems using asynchronous processing, retries, rollback handling, durable state management, Kafka/RabbitMQ, and orchestration technologies such as Temporal or similar platforms.
• Design platform capabilities that enable Agentic AI experiences for guided provisioning, workflow automation, recommendations, troubleshooting, and operational insights.
• Drive platform reliability, observability, auditability, developer productivity, and technical direction through reusable frameworks, SDKs, tooling, automation, and mentoring.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

Distributed systems

API-first design

Kubernetes

Docker

Kafka/RabbitMQ

PostgreSQL

Redis

OAuth2 / JWT

REST / gRPC

Observability

Tools

Temporal

Cadence

Airflow

Dagster

Job description

Zscaler is seeking a Sr. Staff Software Development Engineer, Provisioning Platform, to join our Zero Trust Exchange. This hybrid role is based in San Jose, CA (HQ) and reports to the Sr.

Director of Software Development Engineering. You will architect and build the next-generation provisioning platform powering SKU provisioning, entitlement management, and subscription lifecycle across Zscaler products, with a focus on scalable backend services, API-first design, and AI-assisted user