Job brief: Staff Site Reliability Engineer (Production Engineer)- Federal

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• Listed on Zscaler's own job board. JoRoute does not take listings from job ads or recruiters.
• First seen by JoRoute 2026-11-04 (2 days ago); last confirmed on the board 2026-11-05.
• The apply link opens job-boards.greenhouse.io, the address Zscaler's board gives for this job.
• No other listing with this title and place on this board in the last 90 days.
• No layoff notices (WARN) under this name in the state files JoRoute reads.

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

• Pay: $119,000 to $170,000 a year
• Job type: Not stated
• Where: Remote · Santa Clara, California, USA · Office - Santa Clara, USA · Remote - USA
• Posted: 2026-02-10 · over 60 days ago

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

Level: Lead / staff. The title says "Staff".

Must have

• What We’re Looking For (Minimum Qualifications)
• US Citizenship is required (due to the nature of assigned customers)
• 5+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Production Engineering, or Systems Engineering operating high-scale, low-latency production platforms
• 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 role (onsite three days a week in Santa Clara, CA)reporting to the Senior Manager, Site Reliability Engineering in the Zero Trust Exchange department.
• This is a software-first SRE role: you will write production-grade code and automation, drive the shift from reactive incident response, and bring engineering discipline to the sy…
• In-office perks, and more!
• Learn more about Zscaler's hybrid working model and benefits here .

Main duties

• Maintain high availability across large-scale bare-metal Linux/BSD fleets, Kubernetes clusters, and custom routing stacks in partnership with Engineering and…
• Lead full-cycle incident response by conducting cross-stack troubleshooting using low-level OS and network tools (strace, lsof, tcpdump, iostat, vmstat, gdb)…
• Own end-to-end telemetry (metrics, logs, traces) using Prometheus and OpenTelemetry ecosystems;

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How it compares · Compared by JoRoute from listings

• Typical listed pay for engineer jobs in Santa Clara, CA: $201k a year (36 listings, 2 employers). This listing is 28% lower.
• Across Zscaler's 154 open listings, 35% of those with a posting date were first posted more than 60 days ago. How Zscaler hires

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