Director, Software Engineering - Common Platform Services

Santa Clara, California, USA. Posted 4 months ago

The role

This Director will lead large cross-functional engineering teams for Common Platform Services across Zscaler products. The role focuses on Zscaler Workflow Automation, the Unified Authorization service, and other common services, and includes growing senior technical talent.

What you will do

Lead large cross-functional teams to drive the technical roadmap, scale engineering talent, and guarantee operational execution
Demonstrate executive presence and strong communication skills to enable high-level leadership visibility
Bring transformation through the entire SDLC to modernize the team and execute a completely AI-native approach
Provide deep technical leadership and decision-making backed by hands-on experience with cloud technologies like AWS and GCP
Build enterprise-scale web service products for workflow automation and notification channels that integrate with Salesforce, AWS, and GCP

Required qualifications

Demonstrated curiosity and active exploration of AI tools, with a proven history of integrating new technologies to enhance daily workflows and augment problem-solving
15+ years of software engineering experience, including 10+ years of technical people management and product/service delivery experience across public and private clouds
Strong technical leadership in building products with hyperscalers like AWS or GCP
Extensive experience building cloud services engineered for massive scale and resiliency

Nice to have

Exceptional organizational leadership capabilities and communication skills tailored for executive visibility
Deep product domain experience in security, networking, or enterprise workflow software like ServiceNow
Proven ability to guide engineering teams through a comprehensive technical transformation journey using AI tooling

Benefits

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

Before you apply

U.S. citizenship is required due to the nature of the customers assigned to this role

About the company

Zscaler accelerates digital transformation with the Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange platform, which protects customers from cyberattacks and data loss. The company describes it as the world's largest in-line cloud security platform.