5 months ago
Base Salary
$175k - $225k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and build cloud platform and database-integrated systems for Zilliz Cloud and Vector Lakebase.
- Develop automation for distributed database provisioning, scaling, upgrades, recovery, workload migration, deployment, and lifecycle management.
- Work across Kubernetes, multi-cloud infrastructure, networking, storage, and database engine runtimes.
- Improve platform scalability, reliability, performance, observability, operational simplicity, and cost efficiency.
- Partner with database, reliability, and product engineers to deliver Vector Lakebase capabilities safely into production.
- Use AI-assisted tools and workflows for deployment validation, diagnosis, incident analysis, capacity planning, documentation, code generation, and operations.
Requirements
- At least 3 years of experience building production systems such as large-scale SaaS platforms, data platforms, AI applications, microservices, or cloud infrastructure.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and at least one major cloud platform such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
- Familiarity with infrastructure automation and cloud operations tools such as Terraform, Helm, Argo CD, Prometheus, Grafana, or similar systems.
- Experience with cloud-native platform capabilities such as scheduling, orchestration, deployment, configuration, upgrades, lifecycle management, or resource management is preferred.
- Understanding of distributed databases or database engine internals, especially scalability, performance, reliability, and multi-tenant isolation, is preferred.
- Interest in and active use of AI-assisted development for coding, debugging, testing, documentation, and operations.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation including cash and equity, regular bonuses, and equity refresh opportunities.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
- Paid time off including vacation, sick leave, and global reset/wellbeing days.
- Generous 401(k) and regional retirement plans.
- Global collaboration with engineering teams across APAC and the US.
Tech Stack
About Zilliz
Zilliz develops vector database software for AI applications, including the open-source Milvus project and a managed cloud service with enterprise features. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Redwood City, California, the privately held company was started by the engineers behind Milvus and sells subscriptions, cloud usage, and support to organizations building similarity search, retrieval-augmented generation, and other unstructured-data workloads.