Zoom
Principal DevOps Engineer
$147K–$339K
San Jose (CA) · Principal · Full-time · Posted Oct 28, 2026
- Experience
- 15+ years in DevOps or SRE for large-scale production systems.
About the job
Leads investigations and modernization of Zoom’s hybrid infrastructure and DevOps systems to improve reliability, scalability, and release velocity.
What you'll do
- Investigate services and environments to identify architectural and operational bottlenecks.
- Improve deployment pipelines, orchestration, containerization, observability, and resilience across colocation data centers and cloud providers.
- Mentor DevOps engineers and promote reliability practices, including postmortems and SLIs/SLOs.
What they ask for
- Hands-on background in Linux systems, networking, and distributed systems.
- Experience operating and designing low-latency, high-throughput backend services at global scale.
- Knowledge of TCP/IP, routing, DNS, load balancing, and packet capture tools.
- Experience with Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes, Docker, and modern CI/CD pipelines.
Nice to have
- Knowledge of media or real-time communication systems (e.g., MMR, WebRTC).
- Mandarin speaking.
Pay
$146,700.00 - $339,300.00 (USD; base salary and/or OTE, as stated)
Tools
Linux, TCP/IP, Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, OCI
AI focus
Works across services including AI; no specific AI development responsibilities are stated.
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