zscaler
Principal Rust Developer
At a Glance
- Location
- United States
- Posted
- 2026-02-12T15:31:12-05:00
Key Requirements
Required Skills
Domain Knowledge
- Education
- Medical
Requirements
You act like an owner, fueling your bias for action with a passion for the mission and navigating seamlessly between high-level strategy and hands-on execution.
You are a problem-solver who seeks out challenges and is energized by finding solutions to hard problems that deliver the biggest impact.
You are customer-obsessed, building deep empathy for internal and external customers and anchoring every decision in solving their real-world problems.
You are driven by innovation and technical curiosity, constantly looking for better, more secure, and scalable ways to accelerate transformation.
You think at scale, connecting your work to the larger company mission and building solutions that support a high-growth, global organization.
Responsibilities
Design and build a low-latency, high-throughput data forwarding plane using Rust, leveraging its async/await model for efficient I/O and service-oriented infrastructure
Develop distributed, scalable systems with a focus on concurrency, fault tolerance, and messaging
Implement and maintain gRPC-based APIs and services to integrate forwarding plane capabilities with control and orchestration layers
Optimize system performance through profiling tools across kernel-space and user-space
Engage in code reviews, system design discussions, technical documentation, and mentoring junior engineers