Senior Software Architect, Platform Engineering

About the role

Zscaler accelerates digital transformation to ensure our customers can be more agile, efficient, resilient, and secure. We are an AI-forward enterprise that leverages the world’s largest security data lake to power our cloud-native Zero Trust Exchange platform, protecting against cyberattacks and data loss.

Responsibilities

• Practice technical leadership in design, development, and optimization of Identity platform.
• Focus on strategy for the product growth and expansion in a cost-effective way.
• Spearhead the technical roadmap for the Kubernetes platform, architecting centralized identity and access management (IAM) solutions to support enterprise-scale business goals.
• Work closely with engineering teams to enhance support for Common Identity platform.
• Drive professional development and growth initiatives for team members.

Who You Are

• Thrives in ambiguity and sees it as raw material to build something meaningful.
• Acts like an owner, passionate about the mission, and operates with integrity.
• Loves running towards challenges and is laser-focused on finding solutions.
• Is a high-trust collaborator, ambitious for the team, and embraces the challenge culture.
• Loves what they do and does it with purpose.

What We’re Looking For

• Foundational understanding of AI/ML technologies and experience leveraging, securing, or positioning AI-driven solutions to optimize outcomes within your functional domain.
• Minimum 12+ years of hands-on experience in application architecture and development using Java.
• Experience developing enterprise-grade Security or Networking products.
• Expert-level technical knowledge: Enterprise Java, OOP, OOA, systems architecture, RESTful APIs, and related frameworks (e.g., Hibernate, Spring).
• CI/CD (tools and processes) and expert in Kubernetes and container infrastructure.
• Expert-level knowledge of container ecosystems (Docker, Kubernetes) and orchestrating massive-scale K8s clusters in AWS & GCP.
• Deep experience architecting highly automated, secure CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitOps, ArgoCD, Jenkins, GitLab CI) to enable zero-downtime deployments (Blue/Green, Canary) across global environments.
• Expertise designing and optimizing Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB), L4/L7 cloud load balancers, and Kubernetes Ingress Controllers (eg Envoy, NGINX, Traefik) for extreme throughput and low latency, multi-cloud & DR.
• Basic understanding of PKI & Identity and Access Management protocols, specifically SAML, OAuth & OpenID connect is required.

What Will Make You Standout

• Prior experience building identity platform, hyper scale k8s platform.

Benefits

• Variety of health plans
• Time off plans for vacation and sick time
• Parental leave options
• Retailment options
• In-office perks
• More...

Pay

$245,000—$350,000 USD