# Sr. Site Reliability Engineer- Federal

**Company**: Zscaler
**Location**: Santa Clara, California
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $118,400-$148,000 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

**Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/zscaler/jobs/5256468007?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_a24f8755-0ea

## Description

We are looking for a Sr. Site Reliability Engineer (Production Engineer) to join our team in the Zero Trust Exchange department. As a key member of the team, you will own the systems-level reliability and performance of Zscaler's high-throughput bare-metal and cloud infrastructure processing tens of billions of daily transactions across a global, multi-region fleet.

**Responsibilities:**

- Maintain high availability across large-scale bare-metal Linux/BSD fleets, Kubernetes clusters, and custom routing stacks in partnership with Engineering and Networking teams.

- Lead full-cycle incident response by conducting cross-stack troubleshooting using low-level OS and network tools.

- Automate infrastructure lifecycle management, service provisioning, configuration workflows, and release deployments using Ansible, Python, and Go.

- Own end-to-end telemetry using Prometheus and OpenTelemetry ecosystems; define and enforce SLOs/error budgets to reduce alert noise.

- Perform architectural reviews, OS/kernel upgrades, capacity and performance tuning, strict CI/CD validation prior to production rollouts.

**Requirements:**

- US Citizenship is required.

- 3+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Production Engineering, or Systems Engineering operating high-scale, low-latency production platforms.

- Proven ability to write and debug executable code live (Python, Go, or Bash).

- Deep knowledge of Linux OS internals and kernel troubleshooting.

- Comprehensive understanding of networking protocols and packet-level analysis.

**Preferred Qualifications:**

- Hands-on experience operating and managing FreeBSD / BSD operating systems in production.

- Proven expertise running, scaling, and troubleshooting Kubernetes clusters in high-traffic, low-latency environments.

- Deep experience with Prometheus / OpenTelemetry ecosystems, or leveraging AI/ML frameworks/AIOps tools for automated root-cause analysis.

**Salary Range:** $118,400-$148,000 USD

**Benefits:**

- Various health plans

- Time off plans for vacation and sick time

- Parental leave options

- Retirement options

- Education reimbursement

- In-office perks, and more!

## Skills

### Required
- Linux
- Kubernetes
- Ansible
- Python
- Go
- Bash
- Prometheus
- OpenTelemetry

### Nice to have
- FreeBSD
- BSD
- AI/ML frameworks
- AIOps tools

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Source: [Apply at job-boards.greenhouse.io](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/zscaler/jobs/5256468007?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)