Job Description

Emerging Technology product group. Engineering Manager is a role encompassing multiple aspects of program delivery, technical leadership, and people management. This position includes responsibilities for providing overall leadership to the team, setting a direction for the team, ensuring all commitments are met. This person will lead a Networking and systems team consisting of individual contributors from the software engineering discipline. You will be working with a team of engineers and architects and will be responsible for prototyping, designing, developing, and supporting a highly scalable SaaS-based cloud service product called ZPA (Zscaler Private Access). The ideal candidate has a proven track record of building large scale enterprise products, and is a creative thinker, problem solver, teacher, learner, and a fantastic manager of people, and is motivated with engineering excellence.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of hands-on development experience including relevant experience developing networking and systems software products and solutions with experience in TCP/IP, UDP, and networking protocols. 
• Experience in designing, developing, and maintaining a large code base with C programming language.
• Experience with Linux environment, virtualization, docker containers
• Experience with working cross-functionally like DevOps, QA, Product Management, and Support.
• Ability to lead and influence team members to forge consensus on technical discussions including architectural and design guidelines, code reviews, release process, etc.
• Ability to effectively communicate with all levels of the organization, both orally and written
• Very strong software engineering - design, development and testing, experience.
• Good understanding of design / architectural patterns and automation platforms.
• Proven experience on Requirement/Design/Code Review & Inspections practices
• Good on Estimation Practices: Effort and Schedule
• Experience in Development processes like creating technical and architectural documents and QA processes like designing test plans, functional testing, end to end scenario automation, performance, and security testing.
• Experience in cloud technology and cloud based deployment model
• Hands-on experience in code review, quality tools like static analysis and build environment
• Passionate about building a best in class product with a focus on RAS – Reliability, Availability, and Scalability.
• Passionate about building a world-class team that excels at developing innovative product
• Prior experience working on performance optimization in high volume datapath transaction.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Customer-focused and highly driven to solve real problems for customers
• Driving quality process and trustworthy computing initiatives throughout the product lifecycle to eliminate architecture, design, and coding defects at the source
• Ensuring performance, security, scale, reliability, operational and cost optimization criteria are met
• Communicating technical solutions to all levels within-group and cross-discipline. status reporting and presenting solutions is an integral part of the job
• Ensure highly available services with zero downtime. Be responsible for developing and running services in partnership with the operations teams.
• Participate in architecture reviews related to performance and scalability of products
• Produce high-quality software following good architecture and design principles that you and your team will find it easy to work with in the future
• Ensure that you maximize the productivity of your team, especially by predicting and resolving obstacles and dependencies before they’re needed
• Put in place and enforce best-in-class processes for ensuring high quality and high uptime for the product developed by the team
• Manage day to day direction of the development team
• Setting up an engineering strategy for the team both from technical and business front
• Ensuring that all programs are delivered with agreed-upon business value, on time, and highest quality
• Managing a rapidly growing software engineering team of strong individual contributors
• Contributing to talent hiring, people skill development, setting objectives and goals
• Responsible for ensuring overall quality by taking part in code reviews, root cause analysis for issue resolution
• Responsible for weekly status reporting and cross functional engagements, and project updates

NICE TO HAVE: 

• Knowledge of optimizing code to run on small form factor hardware will be a big plus
• Knowledge of Operational Technology environment like medical devices, SCADA systems will be a big plus

Additional Information

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

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WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT FROM US:

• An environment where you will be working on cutting edge technologies and architectures
• A fun, passionate and collaborative workplace
• Competitive salary and benefits, including equity

WHY ZSCALER? People who excel at Zscaler are smart, motivated and share our values. Ask yourself: Do you want to team with the best talent in the industry? Do you want to work on disruptive technology? Do you thrive in a fluid work environment? Do you appreciate a company culture that enables individual and group success and celebrates achievement? If you said yes, we’d love to talk to you about joining our award-winning team.  Additional information about Zscaler (NASDAQ: ZS ) is available at https://www.zscaler.com. 

Zscaler is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.