Zscaler
Sr. Site Reliability Engineer- Federal
Santa Clara, California, USA · Senior · Full-time
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About the role
- We bring these commitments to life through three core behaviors: ownership and collaboration, trust through outcomes and impact, and a challenge culture with ongoing feedback.
- Site Reliability Engineer (Production Engineer) to join our team.
Responsibilities
- At Zscaler, we are committed to building a team that reflects the communities we serve and the customers we work with.
- We strive to create a workplace where employees are treated with respect and have the chance to succeed.
- Maintain high availability across large-scale bare-metal Linux/BSD fleets, Kubernetes clusters, and custom routing stacks in partnership with Engineering and Networking teams
- Own end-to-end telemetry (metrics, logs, traces) using Prometheus and OpenTelemetry ecosystems; define and enforce SLOs/error budgets to reduce alert noise
- You're comfortable building the path as you walk it, seeing ambiguity not as a hindrance, but as the raw material to build something meaningful.
- 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 have a true growth mindset and are obsessed with your own development, actively seeking feedback to become a better partner and a stronger teammate.
- Foundational understanding of AI/ML technologies and experience leveraging, securing, or positioning AI-driven solutions to optimize outcomes within your functional domain
Requirements
- US Citizenship is required (due to the nature of assigned customers)
Skills
- We bring these commitments to life through three core behaviors:
- ownership and collaboration, trust through outcomes and impact, and a challenge culture with ongoing feedback.
- Ready to make an impact at the company pioneering security transformation in the AI era?
- Join us at Zscaler.
Compensation
- $118,400 - $148,000 USD
- Zscaler complies with all applicable federal, state, and local pay transparency rules.
Company info
- Zscaler (NASDAQ: ZS) accelerates digital transformation so customers can be more agile, efficient, resilient, and secure.
- The Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange platform protects thousands of customers from cyberattacks and data loss by securely connecting users, devices, and applications in any location.
- Driven by deep customer obsession, we are committed to the mission, outcome, and to each other.
Visa & Work Authorization
- US Citizenship is required (due to the nature of assigned customers)
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