Principal Site Reliability Engineer - Product Reliability

About Zscaler
Zscaler (NASDAQ: ZS) accelerates digital transformation so that customers can be more agile, efficient, resilient, and secure. The Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange is the company's cloud-native platform that protects thousands of customers from cyberattacks and data loss by securely connecting users, devices, and applications in any location.
With more than 10 years of experience developing, operating, and scaling the cloud, Zscaler serves thousands of enterprise customers around the world, including 450 of the Forbes Global 2000 organizations. In addition to protecting customers from damaging threats, such as ransomware and data exfiltration, it helps them slash costs, reduce complexity, and improve the user experience by eliminating stacks of latency-creating gateway appliances.
Zscaler was founded in 2007 with a mission to make the cloud a safe place to do business and a more enjoyable experience for enterprise users. Zscaler's purpose-built security platform puts a company's defenses and controls where the connections occur-the internet-so that every connection is fast and secure, no matter how or where users connect or where their applications and workloads reside.
Job Description:

• With a complete intolerance to manual work you will drive Toil reduction through automation and tooling
• Be a forcing factor within the organization as we transform to a world leading SRE organization
• Take the lead in driving Infrastructure solutions that drive service reliability and scalability.
• Take the lead in driving organizational excellence by building scalable process frameworks which drive rapid responses to availability issues
• Take the lead in driving holistic observability, High fidelity and low frequency alerting, zero touch operations and automation first strategies.
• Drive infrastructure, tooling and process improvements which meaningfully improve overall system reliability
• Co-located with product teams you will drive SRE principles such as holistic Observability, High fidelity and low frequency alerting, zero touch operations and automation first strategies.
• Working with product teams, ensure new services and iterations of existing services are built for reliability, scalability and ease of operations.
• Ensure all services and product elements are built to adopt standardized and cloud agnostic capabilities around deployment, patching, capacity management and operationalization to allow for effortless scalability and world beating reliability
• Build technical training capabilities to ensure the SRE organization is a destination for people in their career while providing a continuous learning culture.
• Support and troubleshoot multiple large-scale distributed software applications and networks
• Champion best practices for reliability within Engineering Department
• Participate and/or lead projects from intake to closure

Qualifications

• Highly experienced in the culture of SRE in comparable technology environments.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Decisiveness and ability to make sound judgments under pressure
• Problem-solving and analytical skills
• Demonstrable experience in driving automation first environments with the ability to build tooling and automations at scale.
• Expert level knowledge in at least one of the following infrastructure components: Systems, Network or Observability

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related technical field involving computer systems engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
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Base Pay Range
$161,000 - $230,000 USD
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