# Principal Software Development Engineer- Go/Java at Zscaler

- Company: Zscaler
- What the company does: Zscaler is a leading cloud enterprise security provider helping global businesses adopt zero trust for secure digital transformation. Backed by Lightspeed.
- Company website: https://zscaler.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Principal and up
- Location: Santa Clara, California, USA
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-10-27
- Apply by: 2026-12-11
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/zscaler/jobs/5256472007?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/zscaler-principal-software-development-engineer-go/

## About the role

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. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- Lead the hands-on development and migration to a workflow-as-code platform (Temporal), building replay-safe, idempotent workflows that ensure deterministic operations across a global scale
- Move the organization beyond “scripted automation” toward a robust management plane that treats the entire global fleet as a single, eventually-consistent distributed system
- Design and implement services that leverage LLMs and ML for intelligent signal correlation, automated triage, and “self-correcting” fleet operations
- Develop framework-level services and internal APIs that ensure all new products are delivered “orchestration-ready” with reliability hooks built directly into the code
- Build deep telemetry (metrics, traces, and events) into the management plane so that every fleet-wide action is fully explainable, auditable, and replayable
- 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

Tags: Zero Trust Exchange

Source: 1752vc Careers, https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/zscaler-principal-software-development-engineer-go/