CareerPlan

Principal Software Engineer (Service Platform & Orchestration)

Office - San Jose, USAFull-time$212k2026-07-14 → 2026-11-10
Hybrid

Core

Engineering the management plane and reliability systems that govern ZIA's fleet lifecycle at massive scale, transforming legacy automation into a stateful, durable management plane using Temporal.

Role type

Principal Software Engineer (Service Platform & Orchestration)

Builds

A global fleet of 100k+ instances with deterministic 'one-touch' provisioning and lifecycle operations.

Domain

Cybersecurity / Cloud Infrastructure / Distributed Systems

Deliverable

infrastructure

Required skills

Backend systems languages (Go, Java, Python), complex distributed systems design, workflow-as-code (Temporal), Platform APIs (REST/gRPC), telemetry systems, AI/ML technologies

Preferred skills

AI code-assistance tools, PostgreSQL, workflow engines (Temporal.io, Cadence)

Responsibilities

Lead hands-on development and migration to a workflow-as-code platform, design services leveraging LLMs for intelligent signal correlation, develop framework-level services ensuring orchestration-ready delivery, build deep telemetry for explainable and auditable fleet actions.

Seniority

Principal, hands-on IC