Zscaler
Staff Software Development Engineer (Microservices)
Santa Clara, California, USA · Staff+ · Full-time
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The bottom of this range ($133,000) is below the Level I prevailing wage of $152,797. An H-1B cannot be filed below the prevailing wage, so an offer at the floor of this band could not be sponsored as posted.
Based on the DOL prevailing wage for this occupation and worksite, a base salary of $187,075 would place this position at wage Level II. That figure is within the posted range, and I'd like to target it. This role classifies under "Software Developers" for prevailing-wage purposes.
DOL prevailing wage, 2026-27 wage year · Software Developers (15-1252) · San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA. Wage level is derived by USCIS from the offered wage, occupation and worksite; the occupation shown is inferred from the job title.
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About the role
- 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?
- This is a hybrid role based in Santa Clara, CA (in office minimum 3 days per week), reporting to the Senior Director, Software Development Engineering in the Engineering ZIA Core department.
Responsibilities
- At Zscaler, we are committed to building a team that reflects the communities we serve and the customers we work with.
- We strive to create a workplace where employees are treated with respect and have the chance to succeed.
- Profile performance, guide capacity planning and autoscaling, and help optimize cloud cost for owned services
- You operate with a strong bias for action and accountability, navigating seamlessly between hands-on coding, technical design, and production operations.
- You are passionate about creating, iterating, and shipping resilient software, balancing technical excellence with speed to deliver measurable outcomes.
- You work cross-functionally with Product, SRE, and Security teams, giving and receiving feedback to build trust and elevate team engineering standards.
- 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
Requirements
- 5+ years in software development, including 2+ years building and operating production microservices, with proficiency in Go and solid software engineering fundamentals (testing, design, code quality)
Compensation
- $133,000 - $190,000 USD
- Zscaler complies with all applicable federal, state, and local pay transparency rules.
Company info
- 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.
- Driven by deep customer obsession, we are committed to the mission, outcome, and to each other.
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