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Sr. Staff Software Development Engineer at Zscaler

Department: Zero Trust Exchange

Compensation

$180,000 – $225,000/yr

Setup
Hybrid
Location
San Jose, California
Type
Full-time
Level
staff+
Posted

Description

Zscaler is hiring a Senior Staff Software Development Engineer to own and evolve the Client Connector Agent, a Windows client providing secure connectivity, tunneling, and session management for enterprise and VDI environments. The role focuses on service-layer components such as RPC, user sessions, data pipelines, and tunnel telemetry; debugging complex production issues; improving reliability and cross-process synchronization; and mentoring engineers. Candidates need at least eight years of production software engineering experience, strong C++ expertise, deep Windows internals knowledge, and experience with multithreaded C++ and enterprise desktop or endpoint products. The position is based in San Jose, California, pays $180,000–$225,000 USD annually, and offers hybrid work with health plans and other benefits.

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