Senior Lead Site Reliability Engineer

Overview

Immigration sponsorship is not available for this position.

What you can expect:
As a Senior Lead Site Reliability Engineer, you can anticipate opportunities to work on our hybrid systems across the globe. You will be responsible for installing, configuring, and monitoring new systems within a network of global data centers. Additionally, you will patch and maintain thousands of physical and cloud systems worldwide. To streamline operations, you will develop automation to reduce repetitive tasks and analyze and address performance bottlenecks.

Furthermore, you will update and troubleshoot user access permissions, resolve network connectivity issues, and maintain system firewalls.

Zoom's SRE team is committed to delivering customer happiness, improving business efficiency, and promoting agility through innovation, data-driven insights, and automation. Our impact is reflected in smooth user experiences, optimized processes, and support for Zoom's expansion in the realm of communication and collaboration.

Providing technical direction for cross-team initiatives and major incidents. Mentor SREs and developers; define best practices and design patterns. Partner with Security, Networking, and Platform teams on architecture roadmaps. Influence vendor and hardware strategy for on-prem and cloud workloads. Design self-healing platforms using automation, chaos engineering, and fault-tolerant patterns. Optimize Linux systems at scale: performance tuning, kernel parameters, networking, storage, and security hardening.

Define best practices and advocate for them across the company. Excellent communication skills and experience driving cross team projects as a technical lead. Able to participate in on-call shifts and incident management and work after hours/weekends for application releases/deployments.

• 10+ years in SRE, production engineering, or large-scale systems administration
• Experience with Linux system administration (systemd, cgroups, networking, file systems, performance analysis)
• Demonstrated coding ability with at least one programming language, e.g., Python
• Experience with configuration management (Ansible), IaC (Terraform, Packer), CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, Git Lab), container orchestration (k8s, Docker) and observability platforms
• Experience with incident response for mission-critical environments
• Security-first mindset (TPM, secure boot, identity, secrets management)
• Networking expertise: BGP, load balancing, DNS, TLS, traffic engineering
• Experience with chaos engineering and resilience testing; experience with distributed storage systems such as Ceph

Salary Range or On Target Earnings:

Minimum: $146,700

Maximum: $339,300

In addition to the base salary and/or OTE listed Zoom has a Total Direct Compensation philosophy that takes into consideration base salary, bonus and equity value.

Note:

Starting pay will be based on a number of factors and commensurate with qualifications & experience.

We also have a location based compensation structure; there may be a different range for candidates in this and other locations.

At Zoom, we offer a window of at least 5 days for you to apply because we believe in giving you every opportunity. Below is the potential closing date, just in case you want to mark it on your calendar. We look forward to receiving your application!

Anticipated Position Close Date: 03/27/26

Our structured hybrid approach is centered around our offices and remote work environments. The work style of each role, Hybrid, Remote, or In-Person is indicated in the job description/posting.

As part of our award-winning workplace culture and commitment to delivering happiness, our benefits program offers a variety of perks, benefits, and options to help employees maintain their physical, mental, emotional, and financial health; support work-life balance; and contribute to their community in meaningful ways. Learn more information.

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