Description
Zscaler is looking for a Senior Staff Software Development Engineer to join its team in Santa Clara, CA. The engineer will drive the evolution of the Client Connector Agent (CCA), a critical Windows client that provides secure connectivity, tunneling, and session management across enterprise and VDI environments.
Responsibilities:
- Design and implement features across the CCA service, user-mode UI, and supporting subsystems
- Diagnose and fix complex production issues
- Improve reliability of long-running Windows service code
- Work on VDI-specific flows
- Review peers' code and mentor other engineers
Requirements:
- 8+ years of production software engineering experience with strong C++ expertise
- Solid grasp of Windows internals
- Experience debugging multithreaded C++
- Proficiency with diagnostic tools
- Track record of shipping and maintaining an enterprise desktop or endpoint product
Preferred Qualifications:
- Proven ability to leverage AI technologies
- Deep background in networking, VPN, ZTNA, or secure tunneling architectures
- Experience with RPC, named pipes, or COM
- Familiarity with VDI platforms
The base salary range for this full-time position is $180,000-$225,000 USD.
Benefits include various health plans, time off plans, parental leave options, retirement options, education reimbursement, and in-office perks.