Principal Software Engineer - Linux
About Zscaler
Zscaler (NASDAQ: ZS) accelerates digital transformation so that customers can be more agile, efficient, resilient, and secure. The Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange is the company’s cloud-native platform that protects thousands of customers from cyberattacks and data loss by securely connecting users, devices, and applications in any location.
With more than 10 years of experience developing, operating, and scaling the cloud, Zscaler serves thousands of enterprise customers around the world, including 450 of the Forbes Global 2000 organizations. In addition to protecting customers from damaging threats, such as ransomware and data exfiltration, it helps them slash costs, reduce complexity, and improve the user experience by eliminating stacks of latency-creating gateway appliances.
Zscaler was founded in 2007 with a mission to make the cloud a safe place to do business and a more enjoyable experience for enterprise users. Zscaler’s purpose-built security platform puts a company’s defenses and controls where the connections occur—the internet—so that every connection is fast and secure, no matter how or where users connect or where their applications and workloads reside.
Job Description
We are hiring a full time Linux Development Engineer at Architect level to join the mobile engineering team. You will be building products that secure Linux Desktop, devices, applications and data. This is a very visible, key role within our engineering group.
- Research Linux platform, distro relations, and its security
- Develop and maintain Linux applications and frameworks
- Work with product managers to translate the product requirements to technical requirements.
- Translate designs and mock-ups into high quality code
- Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of the application
- Help maintain code quality, organization, and automatization
- Troubleshoot and resolve customer escalations
Qualifications
- Expert in C / C++ (10+ years) and Linux Software development (10+ years)
- Experience with PKI, network security technologies and protocols
- Understanding of debugging tools and profilers e.g. gdb, valgrind etc
- Knowledge of UI Frameworks e.g. X11, GTK or Qt on Linux will be a plus
- Experience with test driven development approach
- Strong experience and understanding of Socket Programming
- Strong knowledge of UI design principles, patterns, and best practices
- Knowledge of the open-source ecosystem and the libraries available for common tasks
Desired Skills
- Experience implementing VPN, firewall type solutions
- Experience in security industry
- Worked on platform-level component specific to Linux
- Experience or familiarity with system level programming
Education: BS – Computer Science, Engineering
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Base Pay Range
$175,000—$250,000 USD
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