Job brief: Sr. Production Engineer

What JoRoute checked · Checked by JoRoute

• Listed on Zscaler's own job board. JoRoute does not take listings from job ads or recruiters.
• First seen by JoRoute 2026-11-06 (today); last confirmed on the board 2026-11-06.
• The apply link opens job-boards.greenhouse.io, the address Zscaler's board gives for this job.
• The same title for the same place was listed 1 other time on this board in the last 90 days: several openings, or a re-posted job.
• No layoff notices (WARN) under this name in the state files JoRoute reads.

What the listing says · Employer's own words, not checked

• Pay: $115,500 to $165,000 a year
• Job type: Not stated
• Where: San Jose, California, USA · Office - Santa Clara, USA
• Posted: 2026-11-05

What the job asks · Employer's own words, not checked

Level: Senior. The title says "Sr".

Must have

• What We’re Looking for (Minimum Qualifications)
• 4 years of experience managing reliability, scalability, and availability for large-scale production services with deep expertise in programming (e.g., Python, Go, or C/C++)
• The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations and could be higher or lower based o…

Conditions

• This is a hybrid (3 days a week in San Jose, CA) or Bellevue, WA role, reporting to the Senior Manager, Site Reliability Engineering in the Cloud Infrastructure & Operations depar…
• Act as a lead Incident Commander (TDO on-call), develop response playbooks, and conduct deep-dive post-incident analyses
• Experience in high-stakes incident management and participation in a 24/7 on-call rotation
• In-office perks, and more!

Main duties

• Design and implement highly available, scalable infrastructure across AWS, Azure, GCP, and bare-metal environments
• Drive an "automation-first" culture by writing code (Python/Go) to eliminate manual toil and build self-healing systems
• Implement and maintain sophisticated observability (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry), define SLIs/SLOs, and establish error budgets
• Partner with Engineering and partner teams to conduct operability reviews

Lines copied from the posting, not rewritten. "Preferred" or "nice to have" items are not listed as must-haves.

How it compares · Compared by JoRoute from listings

• Typical listed pay for engineer jobs in San Jose, CA: $208k a year (11 listings, 2 employers). This listing is 32% lower.
• Across Zscaler's 161 open listings, 34% of those with a posting date were first posted more than 60 days ago. How Zscaler hires

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