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Principal Software Development Engineer (Microservices)
Zscaler INC · 🇺🇸 Santa Clara, California, USA
Sponsorship verdict
Sponsorship possible
One solid signal, not two — worth applying, and worth asking about sponsorship early.
- Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 129 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 36 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
- The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
- No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
- What Zscaler INC paid sponsored hires in similar roles63 certified filings for “Sr. Staff Software Development Engineer” (Software Developers) in CA: $175k–$224k, median $200k. Most were filed at wage level IV (86%) — 4 lottery entries, ≈61% projected selection odds for cap-subject employers. Source: US Department of Labor LCA disclosure data (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026).
- Confirmed live todayWhen a source last listed this job as open.
US H-1B: cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level — Level I gets 1 entry, Level IV gets 4 (DHS projected selection odds ≈15% at Level I to ≈61% at Level IV). Universities and non-profit research employers are cap-exempt. The $100,000 fee for new petitions from abroad is currently blocked by a court order (appeal pending).
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Sponsor Radar — Zscaler INC
The US Department of Labor certified 129 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 36 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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About the role
Zscaler (NASDAQ: ZS) accelerates digital transformation so customers can be more agile, efficient, resilient, and secure. The Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange platform protects thousands of customers from cyberattacks and data loss by securely connecting users, devices, and applications in any location. Distributed across 200+ public data centers globally and thousands of private sites at the edge, the SASE-based Zero Trust Exchange is the world’s largest in-line cloud security platform. We believe the future of work is Human + AI and are building an AI-native enterprise where human potential is amplified by machine intelligence to solve the world’s hardest security challenges. Driven by deep customer obsession, we are committed to the mission, outcome, and to each other. We bring these commitments to life through three core behaviors: ownership and collaboration, trust through outcomes and impact, and a challenge culture with ongoing feedback. Ready to make an impact at the company pioneering security transformation in the AI era? Join us at Zscaler. Role We are looking for a Principal Software Development Engineer (Microservices) to join our team. This is a hybrid role (in Santa Clara, CA office, minimum 3 days per week), reporting to the Senior Director, Software Development Engineering in the Engineering ZIA Core department. You will work on the control plane for the Zscaler Internet Access (ZIA) product, helping evolve the platform to meet massive scale with cloud-native, microservices-based architecture. What you’ll do (Role Expectations) • Lead the technical roadmap to modernize the ZIA control plane using API-first, domain-aligned microservices with clear service ownership and multi-region architectures (active-active, failover, disaster recovery) • Design, develop, and operate low-latency, event-driven services end to end (API through storage) utilizing resilience patterns, progressive delivery (blue/green, canary, feature flags), GitOps workflows (Argo CD/Flux), and safe rollout/rollback strategies • Drive engineering excellence through standards, code reviews, testing, paved-road patterns, API and event contract governance (versioning, consumer-driven contracts, schema registry, DLQs), and cross-functional partnerships across Product, SRE, Security, Data, and Architecture while representing designs in customer/partner forums • Own service reliability and operability end to end, including SLI/SLOs (p95/p99 latency, availability), SLO-based alerting, error budgets, incident response, postmortems, and advanced observability with distributed tracing (OpenTelemetry, Jaeger/Tempo) and structured logging • Embed microservices security (OAuth2/OIDC, mTLS, service-to-service authZ, KMS/Vault), supply-chain integrity (SBOM, SLSA), performance optimization, capacity planning, and cloud spend/autoscaling across AWS primitives Who You Are (Success Profile) • You thrive in ambiguity and are comfortable building the path as you walk it, viewing unstructured environments as raw material to build something meaningful. • You act like an owner with a passion for the mission, operating with integrity, a bias for action, and the agility to navigate between high-level strategy and hands-on execution. • You are a problem-solver who is energized by complex technical challenges and driven to deliver high-impact solutions. • You are a high-trust collaborator who builds strong team relationships, embracing continuous feedback, candor, and respect to earn trust and achieve shared goals. • You are a learner with a growth mindset, constantly seeking feedback and developing your skills with purpose to become a stronger teammate. What We’re Looking for (Minimum Qualifications) • Foundational understanding of AI/ML technologies and experien