Zscaler

Tech / AI / Software

Sr.PlatformEngineer

$128–160k san jose, california, united states; bellevue, washington, united states Remote Friendly
The Brief

“Sr. Platform Engineer at Zscaler. Skills: Kubernetes, Platform Engineering, Automation, Cloud Networking, Observability, Security. Own architecture and lifecycle of multi-tenant Kubernetes clusters across public and sovereign environments. Deliver 99.999% uptime with multi-region HA, failover, DR, scaling, and security hardening”

Industry & Context.

Tech / AI / Software
Problems you'll solve

Problem-solver; Seek out challenges because you are energized by finding solutions; Solving the hard problems delivers the biggest impact

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

3+ years in platform/infra engineering, 2+ years operating Kubernetes in production at multi-cluster, multi-region scale, Hands-on knowledge of Kubernetes internals and operations, including control plane components, etcd health, scheduling, HPA/VPA, Cluster Autoscaler, and upgrade strategies, Experience in Go and Python for building operators, controllers, CLI tools, and automation, Expertise in cloud networking and service connectivity, including CNI, Ingress/Gateway API, Istio, and observability stacks like Prometheus and Grafana

Nice to Have

Multi-cloud operations across AWS/GCP/Azure including EKS/GKE/AKS, hybrid/on‑prem setups, and experience in sovereign or regulated environments, Experience with performance, storage, and networking at scale, including kernel tuning, backup/restore/DR, eBPF/Cilium, and zero trust implementation, Contributions to CNCF/open source projects or published technical talks and papers

What You'll Do.

Own architecture and lifecycle of multi-tenant Kubernetes clusters across public and sovereign environments

Deliver 99.999% uptime with multi-region HA

and security hardening

Build and automate platform capabilities

Define standards for networking

and multi-tenancy isolation

Lead observability and performance initiatives to drive cost efficiency and manage SLOs

Drive supply chain and runtime security

Operate safe CI/CD rollouts with automated change management

Troubleshoot complex production issues across control and data planes

Lead incident postmortems

Evaluate emerging technologies

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Build high-performing teams; Collaboration; Mentor engineers

Communication Scope

Transparency; Constructive, honest debate

Free ATS check

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