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Sr Engineering Manager, API Platform
Zscaler · Santa Clara, CA · Posted 8 days ago
Lead the API Platform team's vision and roadmap at a cybersecurity company, directing standards for provisioning APIs and microservices built on gRPC, Temporal, and Postgres across Java, Go, and Python.
We are looking for a Sr. Engineering Manager, API Platform to join our team. This is a hybrid role based in our Santa Clara, CA office 3 days a week. You’ll be reporting to the Sr. Director for the API Platform team. You will play a pivotal role in delivering scalable, secure, and high-performing platforms and systems to empower our engineering teams. Your focus will be on enhancing our platform’s efficiency, scalability, and developer experience while managing senior technical talent.
What you’ll do (Role Expectations)
- Lead the vision and roadmap for the API Platform and developer tooling, ensuring alignment with organizational goals, technical scalability, and industry best practices
- Oversee the standardization, design, and governance of APIs, improving developer experiences and productivity across engineering teams and products
- Direct the architecture and standards for product and provisioning APIs, ensuring all state changes across distributed services remain reliable, reproducible, and fully traceable
- Manage and coach a team of Senior Staff Engineers and highly skilled technical contributors, fostering a culture of collaboration and professional growth
- Ensure the delivery of microservices, workflow workers, and SDKs optimized for reliability, availability, and safe retry semantics across Java, Go, and Python, using gRPC, Temporal, Postgres, and Redis
- Work closely with Product Management and Security to build scalable and secure solutions that meet unique business objectives
- Champion Shared Ownership by eradicating knowledge silos to ensure that core architectural work, dataset design, and foundational services are built collaboratively so the entire team can maintain and debug the system in production
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