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Posted 10 Mar · 68 open roles

Principal Software Development Engineer - Rust

Bangalore, INDonsiteApply by 29 Oct 2026

Undisclosed
Salary
14+ yrs
Experience
Full time
Job type

About the role

We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer to join our team. This is a hybrid role, reporting to the Sr. Director of Software Engineering in the Platform Convergence department. In this role, you will design and scale high-performance backend services to drive the evolution of our converged platform. You will collaborate across teams to build robust distributed systems while mentoring engineers to uphold technical excellence.

  • Design and build a low-latency, high-throughput data forwarding plane using Rust and async/await models for efficient service-oriented infrastructure
  • Develop distributed, scalable systems with a heavy focus on concurrency, fault tolerance, and messaging

Full details and the application are on Zscaler's careers site.

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