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Staff Threat Researcher - macOS
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About Zscaler
Zscaler accelerates digital transformation to ensure our customers can be more agile, efficient, resilient, and secure. As an AI-forward enterprise, we are constantly pushing the envelope, leveraging the world’s largest security data lake to power our cloud-native Zero Trust Exchange platform. This innovation protects our customers from cyberattacks and data loss by securely connecting users, devices, and applications in any location.
Here, impact in your role matters more than title and trust is built on results. We say, impact over activity. We seek innovators who actively use AI to amplify their impact and who thrive in an environment where we leverage intelligent systems to stay ahead of evolving threats. We believe in transparency and value constructive, honest debate—we’re focused on getting to the best ideas, faster. We build high-performing teams that can make an impact quickly and with high quality. To do this, we are building a culture of execution centered on customer obsession, collaboration, ownership, and accountability.
We value high-impact, high-accountability with a sense of urgency where you’re enabled to do your best work and embrace your potential. If you’re driven by purpose, thrive on solving complex challenges, and want to be part of the team that’s helping to secure the AI age, we invite you to bring your talents to Zscaler and help shape the future of cybersecurity.
Role
We are looking for a Staff Threat Researcher to join our Threatlabz team. This is a hybrid role based in Mohali,reporting to the Senior Manager, Threat Research. As a key contributor to our threat research initiatives, you will lead the charge in identifying vulnerabilities and analyzing sophisticated malware within the Apple ecosystem. Your expertise in macOS and iOS system internals will drive the development of advanced detection strategies and strengthen our overall product defenses.
What you’ll do (Role Expectations)
- Perform static and dynamic analysis of macOS and iOS applications, firmware, and system internals to identify vulnerabilities and malicious functionality
- Reverse-engineer malware samples to decipher behavior, capabilities, and attack vectors while contributing to prevention strategies
- Research and maintain deep expertise in macOS security features, XNU kernel updates, and frameworks such as Endpoint Security and Network Extensions
- Develop custom tools and scripts to automate reverse engineering, binary analysis, and malware-related processing tasks
- Partner with engineering, QA, and threat intelligence teams to integrate new security features and harden product defenses
Who You Are (Success Profile)
- You thrive in ambiguity. You're comfortable building the path as you walk it. You thrive in a dynamic environment, seeing ambiguity not as a hindrance, but as the raw material to build something meaningful.
- You act like an owner. Your passion for the mission fuels your bias for action. You operate with integrity because you genuinely care about the outcome. True ownership involves leveraging dynamic range: the ability to navigate seamlessly between high-level strategy and hands-on execution.
- You are a problem-solver. You love running towards the challenges because you are laser-focused on finding the solution, knowing that solving the hard problems delivers the biggest impact.
- You are a high-trust collaborator. You are ambitious for the team, not just yourself. You embrace our challenge culture by giving and receiving ongoing feedback—knowing that candor delivered with clarity and respect is the truest form of teamwork and the fastest way to earn trust.
- You are a learner. You have a true growth mindset and are obsessed with your own development, actively seeking feedback to become a better partner and a stronger teammate. You love what you do and you do it with purpose.
What We’re Looking for (Minimum Qualifications)
- Proficiency in system-level languages including C, C++, Objective-C, Swift and deep knowledge of macOS architecture, Mach-O binary formats, and security mechanisms like SIP, TCC, and Gatekeeper
- Extensive hands-on experience with reverse engineering tools such as IDA Pro, Ghidra, Binary Ninja, Frida, and Wireshark
- Strong scripting skills, particularly in Python, for automating complex analysis and research tasks
- Proven ability to decompile, disassemble, and de-obfuscate closed-source binaries to reconstruct logic without source code access
What Will Make You Stand Out (Preferred Qualifications)
- Experience with Windows or Linux platforms for comparative threat analysis
- Prior professional track record in specialized malware analysis or vulnerability research
- Thorough understanding of network protocols and system-level communication mechanisms
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At Zscaler, we are committed to building a team that reflects the communities we serve and the customers we work with. We foster an inclusive environment that values all backgrounds and perspectives, emphasizing collaboration and belonging. Join us in our mission to make doing business seamless and secure.
Our Benefits program is one of the most important ways we support our employees. Zscaler proudly offers comprehensive and inclusive benefits to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families throughout their life stages, including:
- Various health plans
- Time off plans for vacation and sick time
- Parental leave options
- Retirement options
- Education reimbursement
- In-office perks, and more!
Learn more about Zscaler’s Future of Work strategy, hybrid working model, and benefits here.
By applying for this role, you adhere to applicable laws, regulations, and Zscaler policies, including those related to security and privacy standards and guidelines.
Zscaler is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all individuals. We strive to create a workplace where employees are treated with respect and have the chance to succeed. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy or related medical conditions), age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. See more information by clicking on the Know Your Rights: Workplace Discrimination is Illegal link.
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Zscaler complies with all applicable federal, state, and local pay transparency rules.
Zscaler is committed to providing reasonable support (called accommodations or adjustments) in our recruiting processes for candidates who are differently abled, have long term conditions, mental health conditions or sincerely held religious beliefs, or who are neurodivergent or require pregnancy-related support.
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Sr. Systems Administrator
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Sr. Systems Administrator
The Systems Administrator would report to the Manager of Systems Engineering performing functions related to the day-to-day operations of the infrastructure supporting the business including data center operations, hardware, operating systems, user administration, virtualization, and backups and recovery of the environment. This person would work closely with team members around the globe to provide 24x7 support including occasional on-call responsibilities. Sr. Systems Administrator must be able to work well with others, taking direction from team leads to complete his/her own projects, while acquiring information from the team as needed. This person would work to maintain the current environment and meet the needs of users on a day to day basis. The Sr. Systems Administrator will be able to solve problems injecting his/her own experience, assisting less experience team members to complete tasks and developing documentation for standard operating procedures.
Tasks Include:
- Helping to integrate hardware, software, network, process and as required
- Maintaining established Linux/Windows environment working tickets as required
- User and group management in LDAP and Windows AD
- Performing system builds and decommissions as required
- Patching of OS, firmware, BIOS of systems
- Maintenance of existing infrastructure services (DNS, LDAP, NTP, Monitoring, environment)
- Assisting in effort to integrate hardware, software, network, process and procedure from various business units
- Executing a plan for data center consolidation including system builds/tear downs, migration to different data center
Profile includes:
- Good Communication Skills
- Able to take direction
- Attention to detail
Required:
- 4+ years Linux, Unix (Solaris, AIX, Other) administration
- 1-2 years VMWare or other virtualization experience
- 1-2 Years shell scripting (bash, bsh, ksh, sed, awk), Perl, Ruby or Python or PowerShell
- 3+ years Windows and Domain Administration (2003-2012 R2)
- 3+ years TCP/IP
- 3+ years Hardware management (HP/Dell/Cisco UCS)
- 4+ years MS-Office (Word/Excel/Outlook/Lync or Skype For Business)
- Ability to lift 50lbs
- Ability to climb ladders as required
Desired:
- 1-2 years Citrix administration
- 1-2 years F5 load balancer administration
- 1-2 years backup administration (Netbackup, Networker, Bacula)
Company Summary:
Zeta Global is a NYSE listed data-powered marketing technology company with a heritage of innovation and industry leadership. Founded in 2007 by entrepreneur David A. Steinberg and John Sculley, former CEO of Apple Inc and Pepsi-Cola, the Company combines the industry’s 3rd largest proprietary data set (2.4B+ identities) with Artificial Intelligence to unlock consumer intent, personalize experiences and help our clients drive business growth.
Our technology runs on the Zeta Marketing Platform, which powers ‘end to end’ marketing programs for some of the world’s leading brands. With expertise encompassing all digital marketing channels – Email, Display, Social, Search and Mobile – Zeta orchestrates acquisition and engagement programs that deliver results that are scalable, repeatable and sustainable.
Zeta Global is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, ancestry, color, religion, sex, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, medical condition, disability, veterans status, or any other basis protected by law.
Zeta Global Recognized in Enterprise Marketing Software and Cross-Channel Campaign Management Reports by Independent Research Firm
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Senior Embedded Software Engineer
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AST SpaceMobile is building the first and only global cellular broadband network in space to operate directly with standard, unmodified mobile devices based on our extensive IP and patent portfolio and designed for both commercial and government applications. Our engineers and space scientists are on a mission to eliminate the connectivity gaps faced by today’s five billion mobile subscribers and finally bring broadband to the billions who remain unconnected.
Job Summary
We are seeking Senior Embedded Software Engineer with extensive experience in firmware and embedded software development. The ideal candidate has a strong background in low-level programming, hardware bring-up, and real-time embedded systems. This role focuses on developing software for gateway systems, requiring high reliability, robustness, and fault tolerance.
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop and maintain firmware and embedded software for satellite systems.
- Perform hardware bring-up, including board-level debugging, bootloader development, and peripheral integration.
- Collaborate with hardware engineers to validate and optimize system functionality.
- Ensure the software is highly reliable, fault-tolerant, and resilient to extreme environmental conditions, meeting the rigorous demands of satellite applications.
- Debug complex system issues involving hardware-software interaction.
- Optimize software performance for real-time and resource-constrained environments.
Required Skills & Qualifications:
- 10+ years of experience in embedded software and firmware development.
- Strong expertise in C and C++ programming.
- Proven experience with Linux OS
- Hands-on experience with hardware bring-up, including debugging bootloaders, memory interfaces, and peripheral drivers.
- Experience with real-time systems and low-level embedded programming.
- Strong knowledge of networking and binary protocols.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Familiarity with Xilinx hardware platforms.
- Experience with Petalinux and Yocto build systems.
- Understanding of OpenMP and parallel computing optimizations.
- Experience in aerospace or satellite system development.
- Linux device drivers, Low level drivers, QNX/RTOS drive programming, ARM assembly, Embedded C/C++
AST SpaceMobile is an Equal Opportunity, at will Employer; employment is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.
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Life at Plume
At Plume, we believe that technology isn't about moving faster, it's about making life’s moments better. Which is why we’ve built the world's first, and only, open and hardware-independent service delivery platform for smart homes, small businesses, enterprises, and beyond. Our SaaS platform uses WiFi, advanced AI, and machine learning to create the future of connected spaces—and human experiences—at massive scale.
We now deliver services to over 60 million locations globally and have managed over 3 billion devices on our platform. We’re expanding rapidly, pioneering a new category, and we achieved our Series F funding in just four years. Our customers include many of the world's largest Internet Service Providers (ISPs) who look to Plume to help them evolve their smart home offerings while gleaning insights from their own data.
With a bias for action and a love for being trailblazers, the team at Plume embodies a combination of relentless curiosity and imaginative innovation. We challenge ourselves to think in ways that other companies don't, work to do what should be done (rather than what can), and if we can’t do it exceptionally well, we don’t do it. It’s how we've assembled a team of world-class builders, thinkers, and doers. And it’s how we’re reinventing what’s possible every day.
Job Summary
Seeking an experienced, energetic and collaborative Engineering Program Manager to define and drive product success for our cloud based service platform.
They will be able to lead multiple simultaneous projects or programs that are complex and are able to develop recovery strategies for those that stray from their plan while being part of the collaborative, and fun loving team at a rapidly growing organization.
Plume develops and deploys cloud based control planes with scale to manage 10’s of millions of customer homes through some of the world’s largest ISPs. Plume cloud applications include WiFi network management and optimization, device access control, network provisioning and end customer user interaction through mobile apps. Our focus is on the home market and we support B2B and B2C product offerings.
Responsibilities
- Design, build and maintain the project plan including scope, schedule and risk management
- Drive execution and demonstrate end to end ownership of complex, technical programs to successful completion
- Drive deep collaboration across a network of critical dependencies
- Identify and resolve conflicts, inter-dependencies and program issues quickly and efficiently
- Lead cross functional project meetings and milestone reviews
- Deliver executive communication and drive the decision-making process
- Manage stakeholder and team communications and updates
- Develop roadmaps and development milestones for projects based on input from Product teams
- Monitor progress to plan and design a recovery strategy if project deviates from baseline plan
Minimum Qualifications
- BS degree (or relevant/industry standard experience to match) with 10+ years of experience
- Experience working in rapidly growing organizations
- Must have strong technical background and Hands on experience in software development. Strong preference for candidate transitioned from lead development into Program Management
- Lead end-to-end program execution for initiatives such as feature development, interoperability, performance optimization, certification. working closely with firmware, driver, hardware, QA, and product teams to ensure timely and high-quality delivery.
- Must have prior experience working in the Wi-Fi domain and be able to understand and engage in technical discussions related to Wi-Fi protocols, features, performance issues, and firmware architecture. Ability to work closely with firmware teams on architecture, release planning, dependency management, defect triage, and risk mitigation is essential.
- Able to think strategically and tactically and to build consensus to make programs successful
- Demonstrable ability to think outside the box to resolve technical issues and resource conflicts
- Thorough knowledge of software engineering principles and agile methodologies
- 5+ years’ experience managing fast-paced agile software projects with aggressive schedules
- Ability to quickly pick up new technologies and industry trends
- Outstanding critical thinking and problem-solving skills and passion to solve hard problems
- Excellent leadership and communication skills
About Plume
As the creator of the only open, hardware-independent, cloud-controlled experience platform for ISPs and their subscribers, Plume partners with over 400 ISP customers, including some of the world’s largest such as Comcast, Charter, Liberty Global, and J:COM.
Using OpenSync, the most widely supported open-source, silicon-to-cloud framework for smart spaces, Plume’s software-defined network allows ISPs to decouple their service offerings from hardware and rapidly curate and deliver new services over a multi-vendor, open-platform architecture.
Plume is an equal opportunity workplace that maintains a continuing policy of nondiscrimination in all employment practices and decisions, ensuring equal employment opportunities for all qualified individuals without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, national origin, age, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, pregnancy, childbirth or related individual conditions, medical conditions (as defined by state law), military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law.
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Sr Engineer I (GPU)
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Dive in and do the best work of your career at DigitalOcean. Journey alongside a strong community of top talent who are relentless in their drive to build the simplest scalable cloud. If you have a growth mindset, naturally like to think big and bold, and are energized by the fast-paced environment of a true industry disruptor, you’ll find your place here. We value winning together—while learning, having fun, and making a profound difference for the dreamers and builders in the world.
We are seeking a skilled Software Engineer with expertise in GPU Infrastructure, Ubuntu operating systems, and automation to design, build, maintain, and optimize machine images across a variety of cloud platforms. In this role, you will play a key part in delivering standardized, secure, and high-performant images, including those deployed on GPU Bare Metal and GPU droplet (VM) images
You will focus on automating the image creation lifecycle, ensuring image integrity, and optimizing for performance and security. The ideal candidate brings deep experience in GPU infrastructure, automation, and test systems, along with a strong passion for building secure, scalable, and efficient machine images that power modern cloud-native applications and services.
What You’ll Do:
- Work with key stakeholders in packaging and continuously testing our GPU images across multiple platform services. This includes coordination with hardware engineering teams on packaging firmware versions and maintaining an active compatibility matrix of GPU drivers across Nvidia and AMD GPU platforms (H100/H200/MI300x/MI325x).
- Automation and Scripting: Develop and maintain tooling and scripts (e.g., using HashiCorp Packer, Ansible, Terraform, Python, Shell scripting) to automate the creation, testing, and deployment of machine images.
- Security and Compliance: Ensure machine images adhere to security best practices, including hardening, patch management, and compliance with organizational and industry standards (e.g., CIS benchmarks, GDPR, HIPAA).
- Optimization: Optimize machine images for performance, size, and boot time to enhance scalability and reduce operational costs.
- CI/CD Integration: Integrate machine image creation into CI/CD pipelines using tools like Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or GitLab CI for automated builds and deployments.
- Versioning and Documentation: Maintain version control for machine images and document configurations, processes, and best practices.
- Monitoring and Troubleshooting: Implement monitoring for image performance and troubleshoot issues related to image deployment and runtime in cloud environments.
- Stay Updated: Keep abreast of advancements in cloud technologies, containerization, and image management tools to propose and implement improvements.
What You'll Add to DigitalOcean:
- Strong experience with building Linux operating system images.
- Solid understanding of GPU related infrastructure including NCCL, RCCL testing frameworks particularly in a fabric connected environment.
Hands-on experience building and managing machine images using tools like Packer, cloud-init, Ansible, Python, and shell scripting. - Familiarity with CI/CD tools (e.g., GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI) for automating image pipelines.
- Strong understanding of security practices in image building (e.g., CVE scanning, secrets management, system hardening).
- Experience in regulated environments (HIPAA, FedRAMP, SOC2, etc.)
- Knowledge of Immutable Infrastructure and Golden Image pipelines.
- Experience with configuration management tools like Chef or Puppet.
This is a hybrid role based in either Hyderabad or Bangalore(India), depending on the candidate's preference.
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Why You’ll Like Working for DigitalOcean
- We innovate with purpose. You’ll be a part of a cutting-edge technology company with an upward trajectory, who are proud to simplify cloud and AI so builders can spend more time creating software that changes the world. As a member of the team, you will be a Shark who thinks big, bold, and scrappy, like an owner with a bias for action and a powerful sense of responsibility for customers, products, employees, and decisions.
- We prioritize career development. At DO, you’ll do the best work of your career. You will work with some of the smartest and most interesting people in the industry. We are a high-performance organization that will always challenge you to think big. Our organizational development team will provide you with resources to ensure you keep growing. We provide employees with reimbursement for relevant conferences, training, and education. All employees have access to LinkedIn Learning's 10,000+ courses to support their continued growth and development.
- We care about your well-being. Regardless of your location, we will provide you with a competitive array of benefits to support you from our Employee Assistance Program to Local Employee Meetups to flexible time off policy, to name a few. While the philosophy around our benefits is the same worldwide, specific benefits may vary based on local regulations and preferences.
- We reward our employees. The salary range for this position is based on market data, relevant years of experience, and skills. You may qualify for a bonus in addition to base salary; bonus amounts are determined based on company and individual performance. We also provide equity compensation to eligible employees, including equity grants upon hire and the option to participate in our Employee Stock Purchase Program.
- DigitalOcean is an equal-opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, ancestry, national origin, caste, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, age, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic makeup, marital status, or military service.
Application Limit: You may apply to a maximum of 3 positions within any 180-day period. This policy promotes better role-candidate matching and encourages thoughtful applications where your qualifications align most strongly.
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Life at Plume
At Plume, we believe that technology isn't about moving faster, it's about making life’s moments better. Which is why we’ve built the world's first, and only, open and hardware-independent service delivery platform for smart homes, small businesses, enterprises, and beyond. Our SaaS platform uses WiFi, advanced AI, and machine learning to create the future of connected spaces—and human experiences—at massive scale.
We now deliver services to over 60 million locations globally and have managed over 3 billion devices on our platform. We’re expanding rapidly, pioneering a new category, and we achieved our Series F funding in just four years. Our customers include many of the world's largest Internet Service Providers (ISPs) who look to Plume to help them evolve their smart home offerings while gleaning insights from their own data.
With a bias for action and a love for being trailblazers, the team at Plume embodies a combination of relentless curiosity and imaginative innovation. We challenge ourselves to think in ways that other companies don't, work to do what should be done (rather than what can), and if we can’t do it exceptionally well, we don’t do it. It’s how we've assembled a team of world-class builders, thinkers, and doers. And it’s how we’re reinventing what’s possible every day.
Senior Software Engineer - Firmware
Plume’s Core Engineering team is looking for a bright and ambitious Firmware Engineer to continue delivering industry-leading innovation for large-scale ISP solutions at a rapid pace. Due to the massive scale requirements of our platform, you will be solving challenging problems on a daily basis using cutting-edge technologies and advanced architectural patterns involving distributed systems, reactive streaming, and stateful services. In addition, you will provide end-to-end solutions that involve various emerging System-On-Chips, Network and Device Drivers, Kernel, Operating System, SDKs like RDK-B, PrplOS and firmware based applications (native and container based) with connectivity to high scalable cloud based SAAS platforms and beyond. This is a high-impact and customer-facing role with immense growth opportunities and will truly put your software engineering skills to the test.
What You’ll Do:
- Participate in all stages of the software design lifecycle working in multi-disciplinary teams spanning cloud, embedded devices, front-end web/mobile, data, and product
- Interface with the customer on a regular basis and understand their problems and surgically solve them in any software layer possible
- Understand Broadband industry standards like TR-369, TR-069, TR-181, Wi-Fi Alliance EasyMesh, EasyConnect, Wi-Fi 7 etc.
- Understand, excel and represent Plume to external organizations like RDK-B, BBF, PrplOS, IETF etc.
- Get involved in architectural discussions with internal and external stakeholders
- Design and develop high quality, maintainable code, and perform peer code reviews
- Solve challenging scale, integration, and architectural problems
- Deploy, operate, and troubleshoot applications in emulated and/or physical lab and/or customer setup
What You’ll Bring:
- 8+ years of industry experience in writing production quality firmware code for Wi-Fi and/or networking devices
- High proficiency in writing idiomatic code with experience in C/C++
- Thorough understanding of L2/L3 and L4 Networking Layers and 802.11.
- Experience working on Wi-Fi access points, developing on Linux OS, open source router platforms such as OpenWRT, RDK, PrplOS
- Strong understanding of algorithms, data structures, object-oriented programming and embedded systems
- Fundamental understanding of computer networking, operating systems, and databases
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Strong oral and written communication skills
About Plume
As the creator of the only open, hardware-independent, cloud-controlled experience platform for ISPs and their subscribers, Plume partners with over 400 ISP customers, including some of the world’s largest such as Comcast, Charter, Liberty Global, and J:COM.
Using OpenSync, the most widely supported open-source, silicon-to-cloud framework for smart spaces, Plume’s software-defined network allows ISPs to decouple their service offerings from hardware and rapidly curate and deliver new services over a multi-vendor, open-platform architecture.
Plume is an equal opportunity workplace that maintains a continuing policy of nondiscrimination in all employment practices and decisions, ensuring equal employment opportunities for all qualified individuals without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, national origin, age, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, pregnancy, childbirth or related individual conditions, medical conditions (as defined by state law), military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law.
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