zscaler
Staff Software Development Engineer- C/C++
At a Glance
- Location
- San Jose, California, United States
- Work Regime
- hybrid
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Posted
- 2026-03-18T12:15:44-04:00
Key Requirements
Required Skills
Domain Knowledge
- Education
- Medical
Requirements
You thrive in ambiguity. You're comfortable building the path as you walk it. You thrive in a dynamic environment, seeing ambiguity not as a hindrance, but as the raw material to build something meaningful.
You act like an owner. Your passion for the mission fuels your bias for action. You operate with integrity because you genuinely care about the outcome. True ownership involves leveraging dynamic range: the ability to navigate seamlessly between high-level strategy and hands-on execution.
You are a problem-solver. You love running towards the challenges because you are laser-focused on finding the solution, knowing that solving the hard problems delivers the biggest impact.
You are a high-trust collaborator. You are ambitious for the team, not just yourself. You embrace our challenge culture by giving and receiving ongoing feedback—knowing that candor delivered with clarity and respect is the truest form of teamwork and the fastest way to earn trust.
You are a learner. You have a true growth mindset and are obsessed with your own development, actively seeking feedback to become a better partner and a stronger teammate. You love what you do and you do it with purpose.
Responsibilities
Design and develop new architectures while extending and optimizing existing throughput-critical forwarding systems and pipelines that guarantee high-speed transit with imperceptible latency
Collaborate across product and operations teams to design, implement, deploy, and monitor systems in production at scale
Proactively identify and resolve hotspots to ensure smooth performance as the user base grows, identifying paths toward operational excellence
Develop and deliver cutting-edge Zero Trust technologies and solutions that ensure fast, reliable, and secure access to business-critical apps