Sr. Director of Engineering

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.
Zscaler is seeking an experienced and highly motivated

Sr. Director to lead the engineering of

API Platform

to join our team.

This Unified API platform will offer a world class developer experience and power all ZScaler current and new products for high availability and scalability.

The Sr Director in this space will develop a deep understanding of ZScaler’s current suite of products (ZIA, ZPA etc) in-order to build a new unified API platform to meet the needs of current and future ZScaler products. This role requires the understanding of large scale distributed systems and the enablement of developers with APIs and SDKs.
The Sr. Director will establish the strategy and execution plan to achieve convergence of current as well as new ZScaler products on top of the new unified API platform and gracefully manage the transition of customers to the new implementations by striking the right balance between feature velocity and not blocking business launches yet also avoiding accrual of technical debt and throwaway work.
The ideal candidate will lead the development and delivery of a suite of public and private API’s across the organization and provide a unified developer platform experience for all of ZScaler customers.. To do this effectively requires setting a strategy to hire and develop the best engineers and create a high performing team to deliver on the vision of the unified API platform. The person in this role needs to set up effective mechanisms across the organization to foster cross team collaboration with all the stakeholders.
Responsibilities:

Lead the definition, design, architecture, implementation, and delivery of the unified API and developer platform for all ZScaler products with standardization and

governance.
Build a cross-functional team of engineers in delivering a first of its kind data/api developer platform for all of ZScaler products, both current and future.
Establish mechanisms and processes for the engineering and be the change agent to foster innovation and improve developer productivity.
Effectively track and manage changing priorities to ensure that the team has clarity even with simultaneous urgent issues.
Ensure that the teams within the ZScaler platform and product teams are aligned to a coherent technical vision and deliver systems that fit well together by helping with PRD discovery, effort estimates and implementation plans.
Develop process and tooling for the API definition and development across the ZScaler family of products.
Develop and maintain strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including customers, vendors, auditors and regulators.
Responsible for delivering the scalable and highly secure architecture that meets current and future business needs of the API platform.
Works closely with peers, delivery managers and team on process standardization and innovation.
Actively mentor Senior and Principal engineers to develop and institutionalize best practices
Preferred Qualifications:

Master’s degree in computer science or a relevant field.
15+ years of software development experience with at least 5 years of focus in API frameworks and development.
10+ years of experience of managing development teams across different geographies on complex customer facing data-driven applications and APIs.
10+ years of experience in setting up effective development processes and mechanisms to deliver on the product roadmap and plans.
8+ years of hands-on design and development experience in API frameworks and development.
8+ years of programming experience with at least one language such as Java, C++, Go, Rust etc.
8+ years of experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems
Experience working with product managers to build external-facing products and develop short term as well as long term roadmaps. .
Commitment to building and mentoring inclusive teams and team culture.
Strong problem-solving skills, analytical capability and a pragmatic approach to business
Experience navigating through ambiguity of complex and dynamic customer needs while building a platform for availability and scale.
Strong communications skills to engage with cross functional teams across ZScaler.
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The base salary range listed for this full-time position excludes commission/ bonus/ equity (if applicable) + benefits.
Base Pay Range $217,000—$295,000 USD

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