# Principal System and Solution Test Engineer

**Company**: Zscaler
**Location**: Santa Clara, California
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $185,500-$265,000 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Zscaler (NASDAQ: ZS) accelerates digital transformation so customers can be more agile, efficient, resilient, and secure. The Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange platform protects thousands of customers from cyberattacks and data loss by securely connecting users, devices, and applications in any location.

We are looking for a Principal System and Solution Test Engineer to join our team. This is a hybrid role based in Santa Clara, CA, reporting to the Architect, Software Development Engineering in the Zero Trust Branch department. You will drive the quality strategy for our Zero Trust Networking Services, validating complex network security architectures and end-to-end interactions between branch networking devices and global SASE cloud services through customer-centric scenarios.

**Responsibilities**

- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, develop, and maintain cloud-based software solutions

- Leverage your deep expertise in L2-L7 technology to test cloud-delivered security and SD-WAN technologies

- Build repeatable, robust system-level automation suites to validate L2-L7 technologies

- Provide critical insights and recommendations to the development team to enhance RASS, debugging capabilities, and overall product usability

- Design and execute scenarios mimicking real-world production environments to proactively expose critical gaps, ensuring the stability required for seamless customer deployments

**Requirements**

- Foundational understanding of AI/ML technologies and experience leveraging, securing, or positioning AI-driven solutions to optimize outcomes within your functional domain

- 12+ years of overall experience in Network Security, SD-WAN, or Networking Infrastructure testing with strong proficiency in Python for tool development

- Proven expertise in building and maintaining Test Automation Frameworks from the ground up, utilizing Terraform or CloudFormation for complex cloud test environments

- Deep understanding of L2-L7 networking, TCP/IP stack internals, and performance testing methodologies using industry-standard traffic generators

- Strong exposure to SD-WAN technologies, VPNs, and Cloud Security architectures combined with advanced knowledge of Linux networking concepts

- Solid understanding of modern tunneling methods like IPSEC or GRE and hands-on experience with Public Cloud networking in AWS or GCP

**Benefits**

- Various health plans

- Time off plans for vacation and sick time

- Parental leave options

- Retirement options

- Education reimbursement

- In-office perks, and more!

## Skills

### Required
- AI/ML technologies
- Network Security
- SD-WAN
- Python
- Test Automation Frameworks
- Terraform
- CloudFormation
- L2-L7 networking
- TCP/IP stack
- performance testing
- SD-WAN technologies
- VPNs
- Cloud Security
- Linux networking
- IPSEC
- GRE
- Public Cloud networking
- AWS
- GCP

### Nice to have
- AI technologies
- workflows
- operational efficiency
- test scenarios
- traffic generation tools

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