Senior Director, Engineering - Datapath, Security
Zscaler, San Jose, CA, United States
Our Engineering team built the world's largest cloud security platform from the ground up, and we keep building. With more than 100 patents and big plans for enhancing services and increasing our global footprint, the team has made us and our multitenant architecture today's cloud security leader, with more than 15 million users in 185 countries. Bring your vision and passion to our team of cloud architects, software engineers, security experts, and more who are enabling organizations worldwide to harness speed and agility with a cloud-first strategy.
Job Description:
We're looking for an experienced Senior Director of Engineering to join our ZPA team, reporting to the VPE. This is a hybrid work environment, going into our San Jose, CA office 3 days a week.
We are looking for an accomplished Engineering Leader whose role will encompass 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. You will lead a Networking and systems team consisting of managers and individual contributors from the software engineering discipline. You will work with a team of engineers and architects and will be responsible for prototyping, designing, developing, and supporting a highly distributed and scalable SaaS-based cloud service product called ZPA (Zscaler Private Access).
Key Responsibilities:
- Passionate about building a large-scale, best in class product with a focus on RASS – Reliability, Availability, Scalability and Security.
- Drive quality process and trustworthy computing initiatives throughout the product lifecycle to eliminate architecture, design, and coding defects at the source.
- Ensure performance, security, scale, reliability, operational and cost optimization criteria are met.
What We're Looking for (Minimum Qualifications)
- 10+ years of Engineering Management experience with a track record in managing global engineering teams of 40+ members.
- 10+ years of hands-on development experience, including relevant experience developing networking and systems software products and solutions with experience in TCP/IP, SSL, HTTPS, UDP, and networking protocols.
- Experience in designing, developing, and maintaining a large code base with C programming language on distributed software product architectures.
- Expertise in architecture reviews related to features, performance, and scalability of products.
- Experience forging consensus on technical discussions including architectural and design guidelines, code reviews, release process, etc.
What Will Make You Stand Out (Preferred Qualifications)
- Experience working cross-functionally with DevOps, QA, Product Management, and Support.
- Experience with design/architectural patterns and automation platforms.
- Good on estimation practices: effort and schedule.