Sr. Software Development Engineer (Controlplane)

About the role

We are looking for a Sr. Software Development Engineer (Controlplane) to join our team. This is a hybrid (in office 3 days a week in San Jose, CA) role, reporting to the Manager, Software Engineering in the Zero Trust Exchange department.

Responsibilities

• Lead the architecture, design, and delivery of large-scale control plane and platform services with a strong focus on scalability, availability, security, and operational excellence
• Drive complex cross-team technical initiatives, align stakeholders on architecture and execution plans, and ensure high-quality delivery against business and engineering priorities
• Identify and resolve system bottlenecks, reliability risks, and architectural gaps across distributed systems, improving performance, observability, and long-term maintainability
• Set a high technical bar through design reviews, code reviews, engineering best practices, and hands-on mentorship of senior engineers across the organization
• Evaluate and apply emerging technologies, including AI-assisted engineering workflows where appropriate, to improve developer productivity, system intelligence, and product delivery outcomes

Requirements

• Demonstrated curiosity and active exploration of AI tools, with a proven history of integrating new technologies to enhance daily workflows and augment problem-solving
• 3+ years of software engineering experience, including significant experience designing and building large-scale distributed systems and backend platform services
• Deep expertise in system design, microservices architecture, API design, data modeling, and operating highly available, fault-tolerant services in production environments
• Strong proficiency in one or more modern programming languages such as Java, Go, or Python, with a track record of delivering production-grade software
• Experience leading complex technical initiatives across multiple teams, driving architectural decisions, and influencing engineering direction beyond immediate team boundaries
• Strong understanding of cloud-native technologies, observability, reliability engineering, and secure software development practices

Qualifications

• Experience applying AI-forward engineering practices, such as developer copilots, intelligent automation, AI-assisted incident analysis, or ML/LLM-powered platform capabilities, to improve engineering productivity or product outcomes
• Experience building control plane, policy, identity, security, or other mission-critical platform systems in a SaaS or cybersecurity environment
• Experience mentoring senior engineers and serving as a recognized technical leader for architecture, operational excellence, and engineering standards across an organization

Skills

• Deep expertise in system design, microservices architecture, API design, data modeling, and operating highly available, fault-tolerant services in production environments
• Strong proficiency in one or more modern programming languages such as Java, Go, or Python, with a track record of delivering production-grade software
• Experience leading complex technical initiatives across multiple teams, driving architectural decisions, and influencing engineering direction beyond immediate team boundaries
• Strong understanding of cloud-native technologies, observability, reliability engineering, and secure software development practices
• Experience applying AI-forward engineering practices, such as developer copilots, intelligent automation, AI-assisted incident analysis, or ML/LLM-powered platform capabilities, to improve engineering productivity or product outcomes
• Experience building control plane, policy, identity, security, or other mission-critical platform systems in a SaaS or cybersecurity environment
• Experience mentoring senior engineers and serving as a recognized technical leader for architecture, operational excellence, and engineering standards across an organization

Benefits

• Variety of health plans
• Time off plans for vacation and sick time
• Parental leave options
• Retailment options
• Education reimbursement
• In-office perks, and more!