Staff Java/Go Engineer – Distributed Systems Leader

Zscaler; United States; Hybrid; USD 41,000 - 72,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health plans

Time off (vacation and sick)

Parental leave

Retirement options

Education reimbursement

In-office perks

Job summary

Zscaler seeks a Staff Software Development Engineer to join our hybrid team in Bangalore/Hyderabad. You will lead high-scale systems, shape architectural decisions, and drive CI/CD pipelines for production-ready cloud security services.

You will collaborate across teams to accelerate feature velocity, improve reliability, and adopt new technologies while maintaining strong coding standards and observability in a distributed microservices environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Java/Go coding in a highly distributed and enterprise-scale environment.
• Working knowledge of cloud infrastructure services on AWS or Azure.
• Strong experience with distributed systems and microservices architecture.
• Strong database knowledge of SQL constructs and data modeling.
• Strong experience with Identity governance and administration, Access Management.

Responsibilities

• Understand how to build and operate high scale systems.
• Provide service and product wide architectural guidance, and drive impactful technical decisions.
• Establish and enforce best practices for coding, testing, observability, and CI/CD pipelines to maintain high-quality, production-ready services.
• Drive cross-team collaboration and lead initiatives in performance optimization, reliability improvements, and adoption of new technologies/tools to accelerate feature velocity.

Skills

Java

Go

Distributed systems

Microservices

SQL

Identity & access mgmt

Tools

AWS

Azure

Terraform

Ansible

Postgres

Redis

Neo4j

GraphQL

Job description

Zscaler seeks a Staff Software Development Engineer to join our hybrid team in Bangalore/Hyderabad. You will lead high-scale systems, shape architectural decisions, and drive CI/CD pipelines for production-ready cloud security services.

You will collaborate across teams to accelerate feature velocity, improve reliability, and adopt new technologies while maintaining strong coding standards and observability in a distributed microservices environment.