Staff Software Development Engineer

About the Position

Zscaler (NASDAQ: ZS) is at the forefront of digital transformation, enabling customers to be more agile, efficient, resilient, and secure. Our Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange platform, the world’s largest in-line cloud security platform, protects thousands of customers from cyberattacks and data loss by securely connecting users, devices, and applications in any location. We are looking for a Staff DevOps / Platform Engineer to join our team in Mohali, India. This is a Hybrid (3 days a week on-site) role, reporting to the Director, Product Revenue in the Product Operations department.

Responsibilities

• Own DevOps, CI/CD, deployments, monitoring, logging, production support, and operational reliability for a business-critical internal platform
• Manage and improve AWS infrastructure using Terraform, including secure access controls, integrations, secrets practices, and infrastructure hygiene
• Ensure weekly releases are safe through testing, rollback planning, monitoring, post-release checks, and continuous improvements to release reliability
• Improve code quality, performance, documentation, test coverage, engineering hygiene, and platform maintainability across APIs, workflows, dashboards, and integrations
• Use AI-assisted coding tools to accelerate development, debugging, automation, and testing while helping define practical guardrails for safe AI-based development and partnering with Product Operations stakeholders to translate platform needs into reliable technical execution

Requirements

• Foundational understanding of AI/ML technologies and experience leveraging, securing, or positioning AI-driven solutions to optimize outcomes within your functional domain
• 5–6 years of experience in DevOps, platform engineering, infrastructure, SRE, software engineering, or a related role
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS, Terraform, CI/CD, monitoring, deployments, logging, and production support
• Practical full-stack development experience with technologies such as Python, Node.js, Java, TypeScript, JavaScript, React, or similar
• Experience improving release reliability, application performance, code hygiene, documentation, test coverage, and operational stability

Nice to Have

• Experience implementing AI-assisted engineering workflows, autonomous agents, or LLM-powered platform automation to accelerate developer productivity and system reliability
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes/EKS/ECS, Lambda, CloudWatch, RDS, S3, or API Gateway
• Experience integrating with tools such as Jira, Salesforce, Slack, Confluence, Tableau, Power BI, or similar

We Offer

• Various health plans
• Time off plans for vacation and sick time
• Parental leave options
• Retirement options
• Education reimbursement
• In-office perks, and more!

About the Company

At Zscaler, we are committed to building a team that reflects the communities we serve and the customers we work with. We foster an inclusive environment that values all backgrounds and perspectives, emphasizing collaboration and belonging. Join us in our mission to make doing business seamless and secure.

Zscaler is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all individuals. We strive to create a workplace where employees are treated with respect and have the chance to succeed. All qualified applicants will be considered 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 characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.

Zscaler complies with all applicable federal, state, and local pay transparency rules.

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.