Software Architect (Full Stack Java)

Company: Zscaler
Location: San Jose
Posted on: November 4, 2024

Job Description:

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.
We're looking for an experienced hands-on Software Architect to join our Endpoint Engineering team. Reporting to the Director, Engineering, you'll be responsible for:

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• Propose scalable design and architecture for features, measure and demonstrate performance gains scientifically and identify scale bottlenecks and proposing solutions with proof of concepts.
  
• Influence engineering leaders across the company to ensure all features will provide meet our long-term scale expectations and guide long-term optimization strategies
  
• You will provide solutions to improve performance assessment lifecycle in both production and lab
  
• Promote performance best practices through technical presentations at important forums for influencing broader products.
  
• Author portfolio and program-level documents for Performance and scale that influence broader organization.
  
• Assess the feasibility of technical feature proposals and ensure that projects are cohesive with well-founded, long-term visions
  
  What We're Looking for (Minimum Qualifications)
  
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  • You have expert programming skills in Java - coding 50% of the time
    
  • 15+ years of relevant industry experience with emphasis on performance and scale
    
  • You have experience in large-scale distributed architecture
    
  • Experience working with highly available products (24/7)
    
  • You have experience in root cause analysis of performance bottlenecks in lab and production
    
    What Will Make You Stand Out (Preferred Qualifications)
    
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    • Knowledge of database fundamentals: SQL, schema, internals (Postgres) , ASH (Active Session History)
      
    • Experience with Java samplers or profilers like Visual VM or similar tools
      
    • Experience in HBase, Hadoop is plus
      
    • Agile/ Scrum methodology experience
      
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