Principal Software Development Engineer (Microservices) is open at Zscaler in Santa Clara, California, USA. The posting gives a salary of $186K - $265K. Posted on Oct 8, 2026, and still on Zscaler’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 15, 2026.
About the role
(Role Expectations) Lead the technical roadmap to modernize the ZIA control plane using API-first, domain-aligned microservices with clear service ownership and multi-region architectures (active-active, failover, disaster recovery) Design, develop, and operate low-latency, event-driven services end to end (API through storage) utilizing resilience patterns, progressive delivery (blue/green, canary, feature flags)…
The opening lines of the posting. The rest is on Zscaler’s careers page.
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Zscaler has 373 open roles right now, 141 of them remote. Most are in Engineering, Sales & Business Development and Security. The median advertised salary across its roles with a published range is $188K. See all its roles
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