Principal Software Development Engineer (Microservices)

📋 Description

• Lead the technical roadmap to modernize the ZIA control plane using API-first, domain-aligned
• Design, develop, and operate low-latency, event-driven services end to end (API through storage)
• Drive engineering excellence through standards, code reviews, testing, paved-road patterns, API and
• Own service reliability and operability end to end, including SLI/SLOs (p95/p99 latency
• Embed microservices security (OAuth2/OIDC, mTLS, service-to-service authZ, KMS/Vault), supply-chain

🎯 Requirements

• 12+ years in software development with 4+ years building and operating production microservices at
• Deep experience with distributed systems and messaging (Kafka preferred; SQS/RabbitMQ acceptable)
• Kubernetes in AWS at scale (EKS preferred), strong Docker fundamentals, Infrastructure-as-Code, and
• Strong SQL (PostgreSQL/MySQL/Amazon RDS/Aurora) and NoSQL (Cassandra/MongoDB/DynamoDB) design and
• Comprehensive reliability and security experience including SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, metrics
• Foundational understanding of AI/ML technologies and experience leveraging, securing, or

🎁 Benefits

• Various health plans
• Time off plans for vacation and sick time
• Parental leave options
• Retirement options
• Education reimbursement
• In-office perks, and more!