Staff Software Development Engineer
Zscaler · Santa Clara
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- Company
- Zscaler
- Location
- Santa Clara
- Salary
- $212,000 — $265,000
- Posted
- October 26, 2026
About this job
Role We are seeking an exceptional and technically grounded Senior Manager, Software Development Engineering to lead our core Data Loss Prevention (DLP) engineering team within the Zero Trust Exchange department. Based in San Jose, CA, and reporting to the Senior Director, Software Development Engineering, you will lead the architecture, design, and delivery of high-throughput, low-latency DLP engines, dictionary matching systems, and intelligent content inspection pipelines running in C across FreeBSD and Linux environments. In this role, you will balance strategic leadership with deep systems rigor, bridging deterministic inspection mechanisms with next-generation Named Entity Recognition (NER) and ML models while navigating real-time inline performance trade-offs.…
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