Staff Production Engineer (SRE) (Federal)
McLean, Virginia, USAAll locationsMcLean, Virginia, USABellevue, Washington, USABoston, Massachusetts, USACrystal City, Virginia, USADallas, Texas, USADenver, Colorado, USANew York City, New York, USASan Jose, California, USAShort Hills, New Jersey, USA Hybrid
$119,000–$170,000 a yearJobFig found this opening at its original source and checks that it remains available.
About the role
We are looking for a Staff Site Reliability Engineer (Production Engineer) to join our team. This is a hybrid role (onsite three days a week in San Jose, CA or another Zscaler office; remote can be considered for exceptional candidates) reporting to the Senior Manager, Site Reliability Engineering in the Zero Trust Exchange department. As a key member of the Zero Trust Exchange 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. You will debug live production issues at the OS and network level, write production-grade automation, and drive platform resilience.
What you'll bring
- You thrive in ambiguity.
- You're comfortable building the path as you walk it.
- You thrive in a dynamic environment, seeing ambiguity not as a hindrance, but as the raw material to build something meaningful.
- You act like an owner.
- Your passion for the mission fuels your bias for action.
- You operate with integrity because you genuinely care about the outcome.
- True ownership involves leveraging dynamic range: the ability to navigate seamlessly between high-level strategy and hands-on execution.
- You are a problem-solver.
- You love running towards the challenges because you are laser-focused on finding the solution, knowing that solving the hard problems delivers the biggest impact.
- You are a high-trust collaborator.
- You are ambitious for the team, not just yourself.
- You embrace our challenge culture by giving and receiving ongoing feedback—knowing that candor delivered with clarity and respect is the truest form of teamwork and the fastest way to earn trust.