Zscaler

Staff Production Engineer

Zscaler
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San Jose, CA, USAStaff+
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Base Salary

$133k - $190k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement highly available and scalable infrastructure across AWS, Azure, GCP, and bare-metal environments.
  • Write Python or Go code to eliminate manual toil and build self-healing systems.
  • Implement observability with Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry, and define SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets.
  • Serve as a lead Incident Commander, develop response playbooks, conduct post-incident analyses, and participate in 24/7 on-call coverage.
  • Partner with engineering teams on operability reviews and drive reliability, scalability, and service maturity.

Requirements

  • At least 8 years of experience managing reliability, scalability, and availability for large-scale production services, with deep programming expertise in Python, Go, or C/C++.
  • Strong understanding of networking protocols, Linux or FreeBSD systems, and distributed architecture.
  • Experience with high-stakes incident management and 24/7 on-call rotations.
  • Proficiency with ITIL frameworks, incident data, systematic problem management, and technical operability reviews.
  • Foundational understanding of AI/ML technologies and experience applying AI-driven solutions within the functional domain.
  • Preferred qualifications include experience with AI-driven AIOps, anomaly detection, predictive capacity planning, AWS, Azure, GCP, Ansible, Terraform, chaos engineering, disaster recovery, BGP, GRE, IPSec, HAProxy, DNS, and OS networking internals.

Benefits

  • Hybrid schedule requiring three days per week in San Jose, California, or Bellevue, Washington.
  • Various health plans, vacation and sick time off plans, parental leave, retirement options, education reimbursement, and in-office perks.
  • Full-time position with benefits and a 24/7 on-call rotation.

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DevOpsSite Reliability
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About Zscaler

5,001-10,000 employees

Zscaler builds a cloud-delivered zero trust security platform that replaces traditional network security appliances for enterprises and public-sector organizations. Its Zero Trust Exchange provides secure web gateway, zero trust access, CASB, and cloud firewall services, sold as subscriptions and delivered across 160+ global data centers. Founded in 2007 and headquartered in San Jose, it is a public company on NASDAQ (ZS) serving thousands of customers worldwide.

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