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Principal Software Development Engineer (Backend Dev - C/DLP/Linux)

Zscaler · Bangalore, IND

Principal Software Development Engineer (Backend Dev - C/DLP/Linux) is open at Zscaler in Bangalore, IND. Posted on Oct 29, 2026, and still on Zscaler’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 15, 2026.

About the role

(Role Expectations) Architect and implement high-performance DLP engines, dictionary compilers, and distributed incident processing pipelines, setting the benchmark for clean, highly optimized systems-level C code running in production proxy runtimes Own the technical direction and architectural roadmap for line-rate pattern matching, regular expression evaluators, custom dictionary compilers, exact data match…

The opening lines of the posting. The rest is on Zscaler’s careers page.

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