Principal Rust Developer

Zscaler

Bellevue, Washington, USA
$182,000—$260,000 usd; not specified; comprehensiv...
Hybrid
Rust systems programming
Distributed systems design
Async/await model
Zscaler is seeking a Principal Rust Developer to join their Platform Convergence Team in either San Jose, CA, or Bellevue, WA. The role involves designing and implementing distributed systems and core infrastructure components, with a focus on high reliability and low latency

Job Summary

  • Zscaler accelerates digital transformation to ensure customers can be more agile, efficient, resilient, and secure.
  • Design and build a low-latency, high-throughput data forwarding plane using Rust, leveraging its async/await model for efficient I/O and service-oriented infrastructure.
  • Zscaler proudly offers comprehensive and inclusive benefits to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families throughout their life stages.

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Zscaler is seeking a Principal Rust Developer to join their Platform Convergence Team in either San Jose, CA, or Bellevue, WA. The role involves designing and implementing distributed systems and core infrastructure components, with a focus on high reliability and low latency.

Salary

$182,000—$260,000 USD; Not specified; Comprehensive benefits

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • Rust systems programming
  • Distributed systems design
  • Async/await model
  • gRPC-based APIs
  • Linux fundamentals
  • Performance optimization

Nice-to-have

  • Customer obsession
  • Ownership and accountability
  • Technical curiosity
  • Thinking at scale

Key Requirements

  • 12+ years software development
  • Extensive Rust experience
  • Async frameworks (Tokio/async-std)
  • Resilient, observable, scalable distributed systems
  • Linux networking, namespaces, sockets
  • Container-based environments
  • Git, CI/CD, performance instrumentation

Work Rights

Not specified

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