Software Development Engineer (DevSecOps)

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 Software Development Engineer DevSecOps to join Zscalers Central DevSecOps team. In this role, you will apply your knowledge, skills, and abilities to CI/CD platform operations, infrastructure automation, and secure delivery engineering. You will build a strong professional reputation while contributing to the teams growing AI-assisted DevSecOps capabilities. Your work will directly strengthen the engineering delivery backbone that helps Zscaler protect millions of users worldwide.

What Youll Do (Key Responsibilities)

• CI/CD Pipeline Development & Maintenance: Under general supervision, you will implement, maintain, and document CI/CD pipeline components in GitLab CI delivering clean solutions for well-defined tasks such as pipeline templates, runner configuration, and artifact management
• Infrastructure Automation & IaC Fundamentals: You will develop and integrate infrastructure-as-code (IaC) scripts using Terraform for well-defined provisioning tasks, following the guidance and architectural patterns established by senior engineers
• AI-Assisted Tooling: You will contribute discrete, well-scoped features to AI-assisted DevSecOps workflows (e.g., pipeline triage helpers, notification enrichment, or structured output integrations within agent systems) designed and overseen by senior engineering partners
• Platform Operations & Observability: You will assist with day-to-day platform operations by monitoring CI/CD system health, triaging known failure modes using established runbooks, and proactively identifying and escalating problems before they impact our global engineering teams
• Security Controls & Compliance Fundamentals: You will implement well-defined security controls within delivery pipelines including secrets hygiene, dependency scanning steps, and RBAC configurations adhering closely to team standards and established security patterns

Who You Are (Success Profile)

• You Think at Scale: You connect your day-to-day work to the larger company mission and think globally. You build solutions, processes, and architectures that are not just effective today, but are built to last and support a high-growth organization
• You are Driven by Innovation: You possess a deep curiosity for how things work and are energized by solving complex technical hurdles. You believe in the power of technology to accelerate transformation and consistently hunt for more secure, scalable methods
• You are a Problem-Solver: You actively seek out engineering challenges because you are energized by finding solutions, knowing that solving the hardest problems delivers the biggest business and customer impact
• You are Data-Driven: You lean on data and analytics to uncover engineering truths, measure what matters, and guide informed architectural decisions replacing “I think” with “I know.”
• You are a Learner: You have a true growth mindset and never stop developing your technical or leadership skills. You actively seek and implement feedback to become an exceptional c…