Staff Software Development Engineer

About the role

Zscaler (NASDAQ: ZS) accelerates digital transformation so customers can be more agile, efficient, resilient, and secure. The Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange platform protects thousands of customers from cyberattacks and data loss by securely connecting users, devices, and applications in any location. Distributed across 200+ public data centers globally and thousands of private sites at the edge, the SASE-based Zero Trust Exchange is the world’s largest in-line cloud security platform.

We believe the future of work is Human + AI and are building an AI-native enterprise where human potential is amplified by machine intelligence to solve the world’s hardest security challenges. Driven by deep customer obsession, we are committed to the mission, outcome, and to each other. We bring these commitments to life through three core behaviors: ownership and collaboration, trust through outcomes and impact, and a challenge culture with ongoing feedback. Ready to make an impact at the company pioneering security transformation in the AI era? Join us at Zscaler.

Role

We are looking for a Staff DevOps / Platform Engineer to join our team. This is a Hybrid (3 days a week on-site in Mohali) role, reporting to the Director, Product Revenue in the Product Operations department.

This individual contributor role owns DevOps, AWS infrastructure, release reliability, security hygiene, and platform maintainability for a business-critical internal platform while leveraging practical AI-assisted development workflows to improve delivery speed and quality.

What you’ll do (Role Expectations)

- Own DevOps, CI/CD, deployments, monitoring, logging, production support, and operational reliability for an existing business-critical internal platform

- Manage and improve AWS infrastructure using Terraform, including secure access controls, integrations, secrets practices, and infrastructure hygiene

- Ensure weekly releases are safe through testing, rollback planning, monitoring, post-release checks, and continuous improvements to release reliability

- Improve code quality, performance, documentation, test coverage, engineering hygiene, and platform maintainability across APIs, workflows, dashboards, and integrations

- Use AI-assisted coding tools to accelerate development, debugging, automation, and testing while helping define practical guardrails for safe AI-based development and partnering with Product Operations stakeholders to translate platform needs into reliable technical execution

Who You Are (Success Profile)

- 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.