Staff Production Engineer
Zscaler · San Jose, CA · 6 days ago
RemoteRemoteManagement$152k–$190k/yrFull-time
About the role
We are looking for a Sr. Production Engineer to join our team. This role is available as a hybrid opportunity 3 days a week in San Jose, CA or Remote reporting to Production Engineering in the Cloud Infrastructure & Operations department.
Responsibilities
- Implement highly available, scalable infrastructure across AWS, GCP, and bare-metal environments
- Drive an "automation-first" culture by writing code (Python/Go) to eliminate manual toil and build self-healing systems
- Implement and maintain sophisticated observability (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry), define SLIs/SLOs, and establish error budgets
- Partner with Engineering and partner teams to conduct operability reviews
- Participate as a lead Incident Commander (TDO on-call), develop response playbooks, and conduct deep-dive post-incident analyses
Requirements
- 3-5+ years of experience managing reliability, scalability, and availability for large-scale production services
- Deep expertise in programming (e.g., Python, Go, or C/C++)
- Strong background in networking protocols, Linux/RHEL systems, and distributed architecture
- Experience in high-stakes incident management and participation in a 24/7 on-call rotation
- Proficiency in leveraging ITIL frameworks and incident data to drive service maturity through systematic problem management and technical operability reviews
Qualifications
- Extensive experience with public cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (Ansible, Terraform, Helm, Temporal)
- Experience with chaos engineering and disaster recovery planning at scale
- Expertise in global routing (BGP) and traffic tunneling (GRE, IPSec)
- Deep understanding of L7 proxy architectures (HAProxy), DNS at scale, and OS networking stack internals
Skills
You act like an owner with a bias for action and integrity. You are a pragmatic builder obsessed with creating, iterating, and shipping. You champion simplicity by distilling complex problems into clear, actionable plans. You are data-driven, valuing evidence over assumptions. You think at scale, building solutions and processes built to last a high-growth global organization.
Benefits
- Variety of health plans
- Time off plans for vacation and sick time
- Parental leave options
- Retailment options
- In-office perks, and more!