Zscaler
Staff Site Reliability Engineer (Production Engineer)- Federal
$119K–$170K
Santa Clara, California, USA +1 · Remote · Staff · Full-time · Posted Feb 10, 2026
- Location
- Santa Clara, California, USA
Remote - USA - Experience
- 5+ years in Site Reliability Engineering, Production Engineering, or Systems Engineering operating high-scale, low-latency production platforms.
About the job
Own reliability, performance, incident response, and automation for Zscaler’s global bare-metal and cloud infrastructure supporting the Zero Trust Exchange.
What you'll do
- Maintain availability across Linux/BSD fleets, Kubernetes clusters, and routing stacks; lead cross-stack incident troubleshooting.
- Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration, and deployments using Ansible, Python, and Go.
- Own telemetry and SLOs, and conduct architectural reviews, upgrades, capacity tuning, and CI/CD validation.
What they ask for
- US citizenship.
- Foundational understanding of AI/ML technologies and experience leveraging, securing, or positioning AI-driven solutions in your functional domain.
- Ability to write and debug executable code in Python, Go, or Bash, plus hands-on experience writing Ansible playbooks/tasks.
- Deep knowledge of Linux internals and kernel troubleshooting, and comprehensive networking and packet-analysis knowledge.
Nice to have
- Production experience operating FreeBSD/BSD; Kubernetes and workflow orchestration experience such as Temporal.
- Prometheus/OpenTelemetry expertise or experience with AI/ML frameworks or AIOps tools for automated root-cause analysis.
Pay
$119,000 — $170,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
Linux, BSD, Kubernetes, Ansible, Python, Go, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry
AI focus
Requires foundational AI/ML understanding and experience leveraging, securing, or positioning AI-driven solutions; preferred use of AI/ML frameworks or AIOps tools for automated root-cause analysis.
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