Senior Software Development Engineer

At 3 years this is the most accessible role Zscaler is advertising in India right now, and it is a genuine full stack seat despite the generic title. It sits in the Risk360 department, building product features for data transformation, enrichment, analytics and user facing dashboards, plus the data processing pipelines behind risk quantification. Expect Core Java and SQL on the backend and ReactJS on the front. Zscaler runs the Zero Trust Exchange platform, and the posting notes this team's work reaches over 15 million users across 185 countries, so the scale is real even though the experience bar is not high. It is a hybrid role based in Bangalore. Worth knowing: Zscaler asks every candidate for demonstrated curiosity about AI tools, and it appears as a minimum qualification on all its postings.

Required by the posting (Zscaler labels these Minimum Qualifications): 3+ years of experience in software development for enterprise solutions including web based applications. Solid experience in Core Java, concurrency and distributed computing, with proficiency in SQL. Exposure to test driven development using frameworks such as JUnit, REST Assured, TestNG or Jest. Experience with HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript ES6 and above, and building responsive interfaces. Zscaler also lists demonstrated curiosity and active exploration of AI tools, with a history of integrating new technologies into daily workflows, as a minimum qualification rather than a preference, and this appears on every Zscaler posting we reviewed today.

Preferred qualifications: experience developing scalable web applications handling large datasets, working knowledge of GraphQL, expertise in state management frameworks like Redux, performance optimisation including JVM tuning, and understanding of security compliance frameworks, statistics and machine learning.

The real day to day: developing product features for data transformation, enrichment, analytics and user facing dashboards; designing performant web applications in ReactJS for data visualisation; building and maintaining data processing pipelines for ingestion, transformation and analysis feeding risk quantification; establishing monitoring for data platform performance and health; and working with UX/UI designers and backend engineers on end to end delivery.

Location and reporting: a hybrid role based in Bangalore, India, reporting to the Senior Manager of Software Engineering in the Risk360 department.

Honest fit guidance: three years is the floor across the whole of today's Zscaler set, where most other requisitions start at 5 or 8, so if you are early career and want a large security platform on your CV this is the one to aim at. Be realistic that it is a full stack job. The posting weights React and responsive interface work as heavily as the Java and SQL, so a pure backend profile is a partial fit at best.