Zscaler
Sr. Site Reliability Engineer- Federal
$118K–$148K
Santa Clara, California, USA · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 15, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years; Site Reliability Engineering, Production Engineering, or Systems Engineering.
- Visa sponsorship
- U.S. citizenship is required.
About the job
Own reliability and performance across Zscaler’s large-scale bare-metal and cloud infrastructure by engineering automation, observability, and incident response.
What you'll do
- Maintain availability of Linux/BSD fleets, Kubernetes clusters, and routing stacks; troubleshoot incidents across operating-system, network, and application layers.
- Automate infrastructure provisioning, lifecycle management, and deployments using Ansible, Python, and Go.
- Manage telemetry and SLOs, and conduct architectural reviews, upgrades, capacity tuning, and CI/CD validation.
What they ask for
- U.S. citizenship.
- Foundational AI/ML understanding and experience leveraging, securing, or positioning AI-driven solutions in the functional domain.
- 3+ years in Site Reliability Engineering, Production Engineering, or Systems Engineering on high-scale, low-latency production platforms.
- Ability to write and debug executable code in Python, Go, or Bash; hands-on Ansible playbook/task experience; deep Linux internals and networking knowledge.
Nice to have
- Production experience with FreeBSD/BSD.
- Experience with Kubernetes and workflow orchestration platforms such as Temporal; Prometheus/OpenTelemetry or AI/ML frameworks/AIOps for automated root-cause analysis.
Pay
$118,400 — $148,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
Linux, BSD, Kubernetes, Ansible, Python, Go, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry
AI focus
Requires foundational AI/ML knowledge and experience leveraging, securing, or positioning AI-driven solutions; preferred experience includes AI/ML frameworks or AIOps for automated root-cause analysis.
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