Zscaler
Director, Software Engineering - Common Platform Services
$248K–$310K
Santa Clara, California, USA · Director · Full-time · Posted Jul 6, 2026
- Experience
- 15+ years of software engineering, including 10+ years of technical people management and product/service delivery experience across public and private clouds.
- Visa sponsorship
- U.S. citizenship required.
About the job
Leads Common Platform Services engineering, delivering scalable cloud platforms, workflow automation, authorization services, and developer tooling while growing technical teams and modernizing engineering with AI.
What you'll do
- Lead cross-functional teams, technical roadmaps, talent growth, and operational execution.
- Provide hands-on cloud technical leadership and build enterprise-scale workflow automation and notification services integrated with Salesforce, AWS, and GCP.
- Modernize the SDLC and engineering practices toward an AI-native approach.
What they ask for
- 15+ years of software engineering experience, including 10+ years of technical people management and product/service delivery across public and private clouds.
- U.S. citizenship due to the nature of the customers assigned to this role.
- Strong technical leadership building products with AWS or GCP.
- Extensive experience building cloud services for massive scale and resiliency; demonstrated exploration and integration of AI tools into workflows.
Nice to have
- Domain experience in security, networking, or enterprise workflow software such as ServiceNow.
- Experience leading technical transformation using AI tooling; executive-level organizational leadership and communication skills.
Pay
$248,000 — $310,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
AWS, GCP, Salesforce, ServiceNow
AI focus
Integrate AI tools into daily workflows and guide an AI-native SDLC and engineering transformation.
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