Zscaler
Sr. Staff SWE, Provisioning Platform
$154K–$220K
Santa Clara, California, USA · Senior Staff · Full-time · Posted Mar 11, 2026
- Experience
- 8+ years of software engineering experience building large-scale backend, platform, distributed systems, or cloud-native applications.
About the job
Architect and build a scalable backend provisioning platform for product entitlements, subscription lifecycles, workflow automation, and self-service experiences, including capabilities for Agentic AI-assisted workflows.
What you'll do
- Lead development of backend services for provisioning, licensing, entitlements, approvals, orchestration, and subscription lifecycle management.
- Design API-first services and resilient, workflow-driven systems with secure communication and durable state management.
- Drive platform reliability, observability, auditability, developer tooling, technical direction, and mentoring.
What they ask for
- Demonstrated curiosity and active exploration of AI tools, with a history of integrating new technologies into workflows.
- Strong Java and Spring Boot experience building production-grade microservices and APIs.
- Experience with distributed systems and API-first platform development, including resiliency, workflow handling, security, and audit logging.
- Experience with cloud-native and event-driven technologies, including Kubernetes, Docker, Kafka/RabbitMQ, PostgreSQL, Redis, CI/CD, observability, and production operations.
Nice to have
- Experience with provisioning, licensing, entitlements, commerce, billing, subscriptions, or internal developer platforms at scale.
- Experience with workflow orchestration or Agentic AI/LLM workflows; Python/FastAPI, Go, React, Next.js, or Material UI experience is a plus.
Pay
$154,000 — $220,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
Java, Spring Boot, REST, gRPC, OpenAPI, OAuth2, JWT, Kafka/RabbitMQ
AI focus
Build platform capabilities for Agentic AI-assisted provisioning, workflow automation, recommendations, troubleshooting, and operational insights; AI-tool exploration and workflow integration are also required.
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