Staff Automation Engineer (Python/Networking)
San Jose, CA 
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Posted 12 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.

Job Description

  • Participate in product development early-on during the development life-cycle, create the necessary test infrastructure, and help with early integration testing
  • Build the infrastructure totest the productprogrammatically, measurecodecoverageand automate test cases
  • Help with building and maintaining CI/CD pipeline
  • Responsible for validating complex features which includes implementing, automating and executing test cases.
  • Develop and maintain automation frameworks and tools to streamline testing processes.
  • Lead and execute scalability, stress, and performance testing for our products.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify performance bottlenecks and propose solutions.
  • Interact with customers and partners to simulate customer scenarios which help validate the product.
  • Identify and propose areas of improvement throughout the software development process.
  • Work effectively in a fast-paced and constantly changing environment.
  • Evaluate and implement cloud security measures to ensure the highest level of protection for our systems.
  • Document and communicate test results, findings, and recommendations to stakeholders.
  • Stay up-to-date with industry trends and emerging technologies in cloud security and scalability testing.

Qualifications

  • 7+ years of overall experience
  • Strong programming skills in Python or C/C++
  • Tools Development: Build and maintain tools and utilities to support the testing and development process, improving efficiency and productivity.
  • Test Automation: Develop and maintain robust and scalable test automation frameworks for our cloud security products, covering various layers of the software stack.
  • Solid understanding of TCP/IP protocol stack, HTTP(S), TLS, PKI and other related protocols and products (DNS, DHCP, VPN, HA, routing and switching)
  • Strong exposure to different tunneling methods like IPSEC/GRE
  • Strong background in expertise on L3, L4 and L7 filtering policies
  • Experience in Load balancers, IPS/IDS, Routers
  • Good knowledge of Cloud platforms (ex: Azure, AWS), Networking, HTTP/HTTPS.
  • Must have excellent understanding of manual and automated, functional, integration, and performance testing processes.
  • Strong Debugging/Troubleshooting skills to debug/handle complex Network Infrastructure/HTTP/SSL/Firewall problems in customer environments.
  • Quality Assurance: Create, execute, and maintain comprehensive test plans and test cases to identify issues, validate product functionality, and ensure product quality.
  • Performance Testing: Design and implement performance and load testing strategies to evaluate the efficiency and scalability of our cloud security solutions.
  • Scale Testing: Work on testing methodologies and tools to simulate and validate the performance and scale of our systems under different scenarios.
  • BS/MS degree (Engineering/Computer Science)
  • Self-starter takes initiative & ownership, identifies and completes tasks; goal driven
  • Ability to work with remote teams, handle multiple tasks, prioritize and meet deadlines
  • Familiar with complete software development cycle

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Base Pay Range
$147,000$210,000 USD

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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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