New Delhi: In a bid to expand further in India, video conferencing app Zoom is setting up its second technology centre in Chennai. The technology centre in Chennai will supplement the company's current technology centre in Bengaluru, as it aims to speed up local hiring in the country. Zoom's new technology centre will focus on research and development of new products, including Zoom Contact Centre and cutting-edge technologies.
The company also has two data centres in India in Hyderabad and Chennai.
"As Zoom strengthens its ecosystem for future innovations, our expanded presence in India will play an important role in helping accelerate the translation of ideas and concepts into path-breaking solutions for worldwide impact," said Velchamy Sankarlingam, President of Product and Engineering at Zoom.
"We welcome talents in India to be part of our growing DevOps, IT, security and business operations teams as we scale our operations."
The Chennai facility will be led by Zoom's global engineering teams based at the company's San Jose, California headquarters. "Our unwavering focus on listening to our customers has helped us build a secure and reliable platform that addresses their continuously evolving requirements," said Sameer Raje, General Manager & Head of India and SAARC Region at Zoom.
Meanwhile, highlighting that safe and secure virtual communication is a top priority at Zoom, the company has invested in a global team of security researchers via a private bug bounty programme on HackerOne’s platform.
Private bug bounty programmes are invitation-only, which allows companies to hand-pick security researchers based on their previous work.