Principal DevSecOps Engineer (Design/Architecture)

About Zscaler

Zscaler accelerates digital transformation to ensure our customers can be more agile, efficient, resilient, and secure. As an AI-forward enterprise, we are constantly pushing the envelope, leveraging the world’s largest security data lake to power our cloud-native Zero Trust Exchange platform. This innovation protects our customers from cyberattacks and data loss by securely connecting users, devices, and applications in any location.

Here, impact in your role matters more than title and trust is built on results. We say, impact over activity. We seek innovators who actively use AI to amplify their impact and who thrive in an environment where we leverage intelligent systems to stay ahead of evolving threats. We believe in transparency and value constructive, honest debate—we’re focused on getting to the best ideas, faster. We build high-performing teams that can make an impact quickly and with high quality. To do this, we are building a culture of execution centered on customer obsession, collaboration, ownership, and accountability.

We value high-impact, high-accountability with a sense of urgency where you’re enabled to do your best work and embrace your potential. If you’re driven by purpose, thrive on solving complex challenges, and want to be part of the team that’s helping to secure the AI age, we invite you to bring your talents to Zscaler and help shape the future of cybersecurity.

Role

We are looking for an experienced Principal DevSecOps Engineer to join our Engineering team. This is a hybrid role based in Bangalore, reporting to the Director, Software Engineering.

You will join the team that built the world’s largest cloud security platform from the ground up. You will bring your vision and passion to help enable organizations worldwide to harness speed and agility with a cloud-first strategy, driving the long-term vision for security integration across our global footprint.

What you’ll do (Role Expectations)

Define and evangelize the long-term vision and roadmap for DevSecOps, integrating security seamlessly into CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code (IaC), and cloud operations

Drive continuous process improvement across the SDLC and DevSecOps landscape to optimize delivery time, code quality, and security

Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineering teams, tracking initiative effectiveness via key metrics and KPIs for leadership reporting

Lead the implementation of continuous vulnerability assessment and penetration testing programs with organization-wide impact

Implement security objectives across DevSecOps utilizing NIST, OWASP, and DSOMM to define requirements and drive maturity

Who You Are (Success Profile)

You thrive in ambiguity. You're comfortable building the path as you walk it. You thrive in a dynamic environment, seeing ambiguity not as a hindrance, but as the raw material to build something meaningful

You act like an owner. Your passion for the mission fuels your bias for act