# Staff Software Development Engineer (Microservices) 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: Senior
- Location: Santa Clara, California, USA
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-10-08
- Apply by: 2026-11-23
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/zscaler/jobs/5260367007?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/zscaler-staff-software-development-engineer-microservices/

## 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

- You act like an owner. You operate with a strong bias for action and accountability, navigating seamlessly between hands-on coding, technical design, and production operations
- You are a pragmatic builder. You are passionate about creating, iterating, and shipping resilient software, balancing technical excellence with speed to deliver measurable outcomes
- You champion simplicity. You excel at distilling complex distributed systems challenges into simple, robust, and maintainable cloud-native solutions
- You are a high-trust collaborator. You work cross-functionally with Product, SRE, and Security teams, giving and receiving feedback to build trust and elevate team engineering standards
- You think at scale. You design systems built to last, connecting day-to-day microservices engineering to high-availability, multi-region architecture and company-wide reliability goals
- Foundational understanding of AI/ML technologies and experience leveraging, securing, or positioning AI-driven solutions to optimize outcomes within your functional domain

Tags: Zero Trust Exchange

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