Sr. Staff Software Development Engineer (Security Platform and Data Pipelines)

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.

We are looking for a Sr. Staff Integration Engineer (Security Platform and Data Pipelines) to join our Technical Implementation and Integration team. This is a remote role based in India, reporting to the Director, Software Development Engineering.

You will be responsible for connecting and onboarding diverse cybersecurity data sources, mapping and normalizing security data to power exposure and threat management use cases, and customizing workflows to deliver measurable outcomes. This role requires technical depth, comfort with complex datasets, and the ability to communicate with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

What you’ll do (Role Expectations)

Quickly get up-to-speed on Zscaler’s SecOps platform, utilizing Python and APIs to configure, customize, and automate data transformations and workflows

Partner with cybersecurity subject matter experts (SMEs) to onboard new data pipelines and map diverse IT and security sources to fulfill specific customer use cases

Proactively troubleshoot pipeline health and audit customer data across environments to identify quality issues, flag security gaps, and define clear remediation steps

Collaborate cross-functionally with Sales, Product, and Services teams to translate customer needs into actionable implementation and integration plans

Communicate technical findings clearly to stakeholders and feed valuable, field-based insights back to Engineering to drive continuous product improvements

Who You Are (Success Profile)

You thrive in ambiguity. You're comfortable building the path