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Sr. Software Development Engineer (Backend Dev - C/C++)

Office - Mohali, India💼 Full-time🗓 2026-08-21 → 2026-09-26

Core

Design, build, and maintain high-performance system components and software using C for Zscaler's cloud-native Zero Trust Exchange platform.

Role type

Senior Software Development Engineer (Backend)

Builds

High-performance system components and software for the Zero Trust Exchange platform

Domain

Cybersecurity / Cloud Infrastructure

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

C programming, data structures (arrays, linked lists, stacks, trees), Linux/FreeBSD systems, GDB debugging, process management, threading, memory management

Preferred skills

Git, networking concepts and protocols

Technologies

C, Linux, FreeBSD, GDB

Responsibilities

Develop and maintain software components using C; Implement and optimize data structures; Work on Linux/FreeBSD-based systems including configuration and scripting; Collaborate with senior engineers to debug system and application-level issues; Debug code using GDB to resolve software errors

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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