Posted 29 Oct · 72 open roles
Principal Software Development Engineer (Backend Dev - C/Linux/GDB)
Bangalore, INDonsiteApply by 20 Nov 2026
- Undisclosed
- Salary
- 10+ yrs
- Experience
- Full time
- Job type
Skills this role mentions
- Linux
- C
About the role
We are looking for a Principal Software Development Engineer to join our team. This is a Hybrid role, reporting to the Senior Manager, Software Development Engineering in the Data Protection department.
In this position, you will serve as a premier technical leader, defining architectural direction, designing high-performance systems-level subsystems, and driving the engineering execution of our next-generation inspection capabilities.
- Architect and implement high-performance DLP engines, dictionary compilers, and distributed incident processing pipelines, setting the benchmark for clean, highly optimized systems-level C code running in production proxy runtimes
Full details and the application are on Zscaler's careers site.
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