Senior Manager - Software Development Engineering

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 a Senior Manager, Software Development Engineering to join our ZIA Platform Engineering department. This is a hybrid India role, reporting to the Engineering Director. You will lead a high-performing engineering team for our flagship Zscaler Internet Access (ZIA) platform. Your focus will be on delivering key components, driving execution excellence, and building a strong engineering culture centered on quality, scalability, and customer impact.

What you’ll do (Role Expectations)

Lead and develop a team of Engineers, fostering a culture of accountability, empathy, and technical excellence

Drive end-to-end delivery of features and services for the ZIA platform, ensuring scalability, reliability, and performance

Collaborate with Product Management and Architecture to translate roadmap priorities into execution plans

Partner with global engineering teams to ensure seamless integration and alignment across distributed systems

Champion engineering best practices and drive operational excellence through metrics, SLAs, and continuous improvement

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 action. You operate with integrity because you genuinely care about the outcome. True ownership involves leveraging dynamic range: the ability to navigate seamlessly betw