About Zscaler
Zscaler (NASDAQ: ZS) accelerates digital transformation so that customers can be more agile, efficient, resilient, and secure. The Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange is the company’s cloud-native platform that protects thousands of customers from cyberattacks and data loss by securely connecting users, devices, and applications in any location.
With more than 10 years of experience developing, operating, and scaling the cloud, Zscaler serves thousands of enterprise customers around the world, including 450 of the Forbes Global 2000 organizations. In addition to protecting customers from damaging threats, such as ransomware and data exfiltration, it helps them slash costs, reduce complexity, and improve the user experience by eliminating stacks of latency-creating gateway appliances.
Zscaler was founded in 2007 with a mission to make the cloud a safe place to do business and a more enjoyable experience for enterprise users. Zscaler’s purpose-built security platform puts a company’s defenses and controls where the connections occur—the internet—so that every connection is fast and secure, no matter how or where users connect or where their applications and workloads reside.
Position: Sr Software Engineer, OS (C, Python, Automation, Networking, FreeBSD)
Location: Burnaby, BC
The Sr Software Engineer will have the end to end ownership of features starting from testing, automation (if applicable), deployment and helping with monitoring of the FreeBSD OS provisioned systems / devices.Like any technology company, we rely on QA to ensure that our products perform exactly as promised. But as a company that provides technology services, based on our own purpose-built global cloud platform, QA has a singularly important role at Zscaler to identify potential customer pain-points ahead of time. Our customers — including some of the largest global organizations — send all their traffic across our platform, and that’s why QA is out in front at Zscaler, helping to ensure that our services work properly in the cloud and that our cloud, itself, is delivering on SLAs and providing the performance and reliability on which our customers depend.
Responsibilities:
- Perform various hardware bring-ups & tests with FreeBSD/Linux OS.
- Set up/configure the network, database, high availability services, run software updates,
- Perform OS Security audits
- Testing and automating OS system configurations for software packages.
- Design, develop test plan and test Zscaler software products that implements various protocols such as TCP/IP, HTTP, SSL, Encryption technologies.
- Develop Programs using various programming languages such as C and write scripts using Python for test automation development.
- Debugging and troubleshooting issues within Zscaler products running on Unix systems
- Review product specifications and write the test case, develop test plans for assigned areas.
- Identifies issues and technical interdependencies and suggest possible solutions
- Assist in the development and delivery of training to cross-functional teams
- Recreate complex customer and production-reported issues to determine root cause and verify the fix
Qualifications:
- 3-5 years of experience in development/testing within Operating systems, Kernel, DPDK, Drivers, Networking, and/or Security space
- FreeBSD / Unix OS testing experience
- OS installation using USB or UEFI
- Good kernel and hardware debugging skills
- Knowledge and/or hands-on experience in freeBSD, Linux, L2, L3; TCP/IP, HTTP/HTTPS & SSL
- Automation development skills in Python
- Very good debugging and troubleshooting skills.
- Testing Experience of Proxy Or Firewall is a plus.
- Experienced in automation framework development & test automation.
- Extensive knowledge of Unix/Linux environments.
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