CareerPlan

Principal Software Development Engineer- Go

Office - Santa Clara, USAFull-time$185k–$265k2026-10-27 → 2026-11-10
Hybrid

Core

Engineer the management plane and reliability systems governing ZIA's fleet lifecycle at massive scale, leading the transformation from legacy automation to a stateful, durable management plane built on Temporal.

Role type

Principal Software Development Engineer (Service Platform & Orchestration)

Builds

Management plane, reliability systems, workflow-as-code platform, framework-level services, internal APIs, deep telemetry systems

Domain

Cybersecurity / Cloud Security (SASE) / Distributed Systems

Deliverable

infrastructure

Required skills

Go, distributed systems design, backend systems, workflow orchestration (Temporal), API design (REST/gRPC), idempotency patterns, LLM/ML integration, telemetry engineering

Preferred skills

PostgreSQL, AI code-assistance tools (Cursor, Windsurf), workflow engines (Cadence)

Technologies

Temporal, Go, REST, gRPC, PostgreSQL, LLMs, ML

Responsibilities

Lead hands-on development and migration to a workflow-as-code platform; Design and implement services leveraging LLMs and ML for intelligent signal correlation; Develop framework-level services and internal APIs; Build deep telemetry into the management plane

Seniority

Principal, hands-on IC