zscaler

Senior Principal Rust Developer

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At a Glance

Location
San Jose, California, United States
Work Regime
hybrid
Experience
15+ years
Posted
2026-03-11T09:47:04-04:00

Key Requirements

Required Skills

CI/CDGitKubernetesLinuxRust

Domain Knowledge

  • Education
  • Engineering
  • Medical

Requirements

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.

15+ years of software engineering experience, with extensive experience coding with Rust, particularly in systems programming and async frameworks like Tokio or async-std

Proven expertise in building resilient, observable, and horizontally scalable distributed systems

Strong understanding of Linux fundamentals, including networking, namespaces, sockets, and kernel-user space interaction

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