Principal SWE- Hadoop
San Jose, CA 
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Posted 18 days ago
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About Zscaler

Zscaler (NASDAQ: ZS) accelerates digital transformation so that customers can be more agile, efficient, resilient, and secure. The Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange is the company's cloud-native platform that protects thousands of customers from cyberattacks and data loss by securely connecting users, devices, and applications in any location.

With more than 10 years of experience developing, operating, and scaling the cloud, Zscaler serves thousands of enterprise customers around the world, including 450 of the Forbes Global 2000 organizations. In addition to protecting customers from damaging threats, such as ransomware and data exfiltration, it helps them slash costs, reduce complexity, and improve the user experience by eliminating stacks of latency-creating gateway appliances.

Zscaler was founded in 2007 with a mission to make the cloud a safe place to do business and a more enjoyable experience for enterprise users. Zscaler's purpose-built security platform puts a company's defenses and controls where the connections occur-the internet-so that every connection is fast and secure, no matter how or where users connect or where their applications and workloads reside.

We are currently seeking a talented Devops Engineer who is passionate about operating large scale distributed systems and solving enterprise scale problems. Come join our Analytics Data team to build the future data platform. As a Principal Engineer you will play a critical role in ensuring the reliability and performance of our platform. We are looking for someone who is passionate about building and maintaining scalable, highly available systems and has a strong background in infrastructure and automation. If you thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative environment and have a track record of successfully operating distributed systems at scale we want to hear from you!

Responsibilities:

  • As a Principal Devops engineer you will work to improve the reliability and performance of Zscaler's data platform
  • You will partner with our product engineering teams to design, build, operate, and automate distributed applications that are critical to the function of Zscaler's business
  • Engage in and improve the whole lifecycle of services-from inception and design, deployment, operation, and refinement
  • Scale systems sustainably by automation; Drive changes that improve reliability and velocity
  • Establish and practice low noise incident response rotations and blameless postmortems to prevent problem recurrence.
  • Develop documentation and capacity plans, and debug the hardest problems on large distributed systems.
  • Collaborate with software engineers to establish, maintain, and optimize functional and performance SLAs.
  • Operate and Maintain modern data lake technologies like Hadoop & Spark
  • Participate in on-call rotation.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Proficient in at least one modern programming language
  • Systematic problem-solving methods, effective communication skills.
  • Experience with containers and container orchestration systems such as Kubernetes
  • Good technical understanding of Distributed systems architecture and data processing framework
  • Hands-on experience managing big data processing and distributed systems like Hadoop, Spark, Kafka etc
  • 10+ years of experience designing, building and supporting large scale systems in production
  • Ability to drive decisions and deliver results across multiple teams and functions
  • Experience in deploying, managing, and operating scalable and fault tolerant Linux infrastructure.
  • Hands-on operational experience performance measurement and benchmarking.
  • Hands on experience with one of more public cloud providers (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
  • Ability to prioritize tasks and work independently.

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Base Pay Range
$175,000$250,000 USD

By applying for this role, you adhere to applicable laws, regulations, and Zscaler policies,including thoserelatedtosecurity and privacy standards and guidelines.

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Job Summary
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Start Date
As soon as possible
Employment Term and Type
Regular, Full Time
Required Experience
10+ years
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