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📍 New York, New York, United States· Full-time
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We believe that the way people interact with their finances will drastically improve in the next few years. We’re dedicated to empowering this transformation by building the tools and experiences that thousands of developers use to create their own products. Plaid powers the tools millions of people rely on to live a healthier financial life. We work with thousands of companies like Venmo, SoFi, several of the Fortune 500, and many of the largest banks to make it easy for people to connect their financial accounts to the apps and services they want to use. Plaid’s network covers 12,000 financial institutions across the US, Canada, UK and Europe. Founded in 2013, the company is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in New York, Washington D.C., London and Amsterdam. Security Engineering is the engineering function inside the Plaid security org that focuses on developing the industry-leading security systems and infrastructure. Security Engineering owns most of Plaid’s security-related infrastructure: secure data storage, key management systems, internal identity platform, internal authentication systems, internal permission management, and internal authorization service. We develop solutions across data encryption, key management, access control, and data loss prevention to protect sensitive consumer data. We believe in the Zero Trust security model and are always looking for ways to improve our authentication and access control platforms. About the role: You will develop security capabilities to secure Plaid infrastructure and sensitive data access. You will lead the team’s strategic planning in collaboration with the manager and other senior engineers. You will own, maintain, and build Plaid’s security infrastructure and services like IAM Gateway, Key Management System and Network Firewall. You will consult with product engineers to ensure Plaid services meet security standards. You will help educate and support other engineering teams to improve security in

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📍 United States· Full-time· Remote
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From $126K/yr

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GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps. GitLab enables organizations to increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, reduce security and compliance risk, and accelerate digital transformation. More than 50 million registered users and more than 50% of the Fortune 100* trust GitLab to ship better, more secure software faster. The same principles built into our products are reflected in how our team works: we embrace AI as a core productivity multiplier, with all team members expected to incorporate AI into their daily workflows to drive efficiency, innovation, and impact. GitLab is where careers accelerate, innovation flourishes, and every voice is valued. Our high-performance culture is driven by our values and continuous knowledge exchange, enabling our team members to reach their full potential while collaborating with industry leaders to solve complex problems. Co-create the future with us as we build technology that transforms how the world develops software. * Fortune 500® is a registered trademark of Fortune Media IP Limited, used under license. Claim based on GitLab data. Fortune 100 refers to the top 20% ranked companies in the 2025 Fortune 500 list, published in June 2025. Fortune and Fortune Media IP Limited are not affiliated with, and do not endorse products or services of GitLab. An Overview of This Role Staff Systems Engineer, IT is a senior, hands-on engineering role for a generalist who is comfortable owning a broad set of platforms. You'll own the systems and integrations behind the employee lifecycle, onboarding, role changes, and offboarding, and you'll build them the way we build software: as infrastructure-as-code, with SRE practices behind them so they are versioned, observable, and reliable. You'll be the technical owner of GitLab's ITSM platform and the AI capabilities layered on top of it, designing virtual agents, agentic workflows, and knowledge experiences that resolve requests before they

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📍 San Francisco, United States· Full-time· Remote
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From $158.8K/yr

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About Pinterest: Millions of people around the world come to our platform to find creative ideas, dream about new possibilities and plan for memories that will last a lifetime. At Pinterest, we’re on a mission to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love, and that starts with the people behind the product. Discover a career where you ignite innovation for millions, transform passion into growth opportunities, celebrate each other’s unique experiences and embrace the flexibility to do your best work. Creating a career you love? It’s Possible. At Pinterest, AI isn't just a feature, it's a powerful partner that augments our creativity and amplifies our impact, and we’re looking for candidates who are excited to be a part of that. To get a complete picture of your experience and abilities, we’ll explore your foundational skills and how you collaborate with AI. Through our interview process, what matters most is that you can always explain your approach, showing us not just what you know, but how you think. You can read more about our AI interview philosophy and how we use AI in our recruiting process here . Are you passionate about designing and building enterprise finance platforms that power critical business operations at scale? Join Pinterest’s IT Enterprise Systems team and help shape the future of our Finance technology ecosystem. In this role, you will lead the design, development, and evolution of Oracle EBS-based solutions, modern integrations, and AI-enabled capabilities that support our fintech initiatives. This is a highly technical position offering the opportunity to work across Oracle EBS, AWS and emerging internal AI platforms to deliver secure, scalable, and business-critical systems. What You’ll Do: Design, build, and support scalable enterprise solutions across the Oracle EBS and Finance systems landscape, with a strong focus on technical architecture, integrations, and platform reliability. Serve as a senior technical expert for

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📍 United States· Full-time· Remote
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend -90.5%

From $265K/yr

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We're transforming the grocery industry At Instacart, we invite the world to share love through food because we believe everyone should have access to the food they love and more time to enjoy it together. Where others see a simple need for grocery delivery, we see exciting complexity and endless opportunity to serve the varied needs of our community. We work to deliver an essential service that customers rely on to get their groceries and household goods, while also offering safe and flexible earnings opportunities to Instacart Personal Shoppers. Instacart has become a lifeline for millions of people, and we’re building the team to help push our shopping cart forward. If you’re ready to do the best work of your life, come join our table. Instacart is a Flex First team There’s no one-size fits all approach to how we do our best work. Our employees have the flexibility to choose where they do their best work—whether it’s from home, an office, or your favorite coffee shop—while staying connected and building community through regular in-person events. Learn more about our flexible approach to where we work. Overview Instacarts Data Infrastructure organization builds and operates the systems that power our company’s data ecosystem, including a modern open data lakehouse on Apache Iceberg, a multi-engine compute platform for stream and analytical workloads, and self-serve tooling that helps Product, Data Science, ML, Ads, Finance, and engineering teams move fast with data. We’re looking for a Staff Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure to join our Data Governance and Foundations Team. In this role, you’ll serve as a senior technical leader owning the architecture and delivery of our open lakehouse foundation, governance and access patterns, and multi-engine compute strategy—balancing today’s reliability with the next three to five years of scale, maturity, and cost efficiency. You’ll collaborate closely with engineering leadership and stakeholders across Data Science,

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📍 Menlo Park, California, United States· Full-time
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At Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise. To usher in this new era, we seek AI-native thinkers across every function who are energized by the opportunity to reinvent how they work. You don’t just use tools; you possess an innate curiosity, treating AI as a high-trust collaborator that is core to how you solve problems and accelerate your impact. We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset — who rapidly test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results. At Snowflake, your role isn't just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done. We are hiring a Staff Software Engineer, Product Security for our Security Foundations team. Product security sits at the center of the trust customers place in the Snowflake platform, and this role owns the hard technical problems that keep that trust intact. You will drive security architecture and secure-by-design practices across engineering teams, shaping how new products are built rather than reviewing them after the fact. AS A STAFF SOFTWARE ENGINEER, PRODUCT SECURITY AT SNOWFLAKE, YOU WILL: Set the technical direction for product security across multiple engineering teams, influencing architecture decisions before code is written Design and build security-critical services, frameworks, and controls that other engineering teams adopt as defaults Lead threat modeling and security design reviews for the platform's most complex and high-risk systems Partner with product and engineering leaders to embed secure-by-design principles into the development lifecycle Investigate and drive resolution of the highest-severity security issues, then eliminate the underlying class of problem, not just the instance Mentor senior and mid-level engineers, raising the security engineering bar across the organization Own initiatives end to end, from problem framing and scoping through de

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📍 Menlo Park, California, United States· Full-time
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At Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise. To usher in this new era, we seek AI-native thinkers across every function who are energized by the opportunity to reinvent how they work. You don’t just use tools; you possess an innate curiosity, treating AI as a high-trust collaborator that is core to how you solve problems and accelerate your impact. We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset — who rapidly test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results. At Snowflake, your role isn't just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done. Snowflake is building AI BI: a new way for anyone in a company to ask questions and get accurate, auditable answers from their data, whether as visualizations or plain-language insights. We are looking for a senior+ level full-stack engineer to help build this experience end to end. This is not about recreating every long-tail feature from legacy BI tools. We are building something lightweight, composable, and understandable by AI. The goal is to help business users, analysts, and data teams move from question to answer faster, while creating a product that is robust, scalable, and delightful to use. You should be excited to work across the stack, move quickly, and make strong product and engineering tradeoffs. The ideal candidate has experience building durable systems at enterprise scale, but is also comfortable operating with startup speed and ambiguity. In this role, you will Build core product capabilities for AI-native dashboards and analytics experiences using JavaScript (React), Go, Java. Drive projects end to end across frontend, backend, architecture, and product details. Partner closely with product, design, and sister teams to deliver cohesive user experiences. Make thoughtful tradeoffs between speed, quality, and long-term maintainability. Help shape technical

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📍 Bellevue, Washington, United States· Full-time
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At Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise. To usher in this new era, we seek AI-native thinkers across every function who are energized by the opportunity to reinvent how they work. You don’t just use tools; you possess an innate curiosity, treating AI as a high-trust collaborator that is core to how you solve problems and accelerate your impact. We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset — who rapidly test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results. At Snowflake, your role isn't just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done. Come join us in this super high impact role as we build the future of Snowflake! Snowsight is the perfect place for data professionals to do their best work, and in this role you'll be making it even better. You'll join a wildly talented, multi-disciplinary team to not only reimagine existing Snowsight experiences, but also to extend it to exciting new surfaces and unlock high value business opportunities. Acting as a startup within Snowflake, together we'll iterate quickly, ship daily, and experiment continuously. This is a phenomenal opportunity to revolutionize how people across the world turn data into knowledge, and knowledge into opportunities. As a senior technical leader on this team, you'll have exceptional impact, both shaping and shipping amazing experiences — and helping the engineers around you do the very best work of their careers. YOU WILL: Act as a technical leader and deep domain expert across the stack, owning an area of the product end-to-end with an eye toward service health, quality, and customer experience. Lead large, cross-team projects from architecture through delivery — identifying opportunities, making the right trade-offs in the context of overall company goals, and driving them to completion. Leverage agentic AI to accelerate your work (and th

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📍 Menlo Park, California, United States· Full-time
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At Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise. To usher in this new era, we seek AI-native thinkers across every function who are energized by the opportunity to reinvent how they work. You don’t just use tools; you possess an innate curiosity, treating AI as a high-trust collaborator that is core to how you solve problems and accelerate your impact. We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset — who rapidly test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results. At Snowflake, your role isn't just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done. Staff Software Engineer - Container Platform (Menlo Park) About the Role We build the foundational container platform that runs Snowflake's production, AI/ML, and CI workloads across AWS, Azure, and GCP, including a rapidly growing AI/ML footprint. Hundreds of large Kubernetes clusters under management and growing. The work is to make that fleet reliable, automated, and invisible to the thousands of engineers building on top of it. This is a staff-level role on a senior, high-performing platform team. You'll own hard problems end to end, drive technical direction across teams, and build the automation and platform abstractions that make operating at this scale sustainable. There is significant unsolved work ahead: improving the developer experience for thousands of internal engineers and continuing to scale the platform to meet Snowflake's growth. What You'll Do Own the design and delivery of large, complex platform initiatives spanning cluster lifecycle management, multi-cloud automation, and internal developer tooling. Identify and drive cross-team technical improvements across the platform, from architecture through adoption. Make and defend architectural trade-offs grounded in reliability, scalability, and operational reality. Act as a technical anchor for the team, dev

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📍 San Francisco, United States· Full-time
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend -86.4%
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About Pinterest: Millions of people around the world come to our platform to find creative ideas, dream about new possibilities and plan for memories that will last a lifetime. At Pinterest, we’re on a mission to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love, and that starts with the people behind the product. Discover a career where you ignite innovation for millions, transform passion into growth opportunities, celebrate each other’s unique experiences and embrace the flexibility to do your best work. Creating a career you love? It’s Possible. At Pinterest, AI isn't just a feature, it's a powerful partner that augments our creativity and amplifies our impact, and we’re looking for candidates who are excited to be a part of that. To get a complete picture of your experience and abilities, we’ll explore your foundational skills and how you collaborate with AI. Through our interview process, what matters most is that you can always explain your approach, showing us not just what you know, but how you think. You can read more about our AI interview philosophy and how we use AI in our recruiting process here . Our Merchants organization focuses on onboarding and activation, catalog quality and health, merchant presence (including creator/UGC and trust signals), and ads upsell—helping merchants build healthy catalogs, reach the right audiences, and unlock clear paths to growth. In this role, you’ll lead high-impact engineering at the intersection of commerce platforms, catalog systems, and AI-native experiences. This includes applying ML, AI-assisted workflows, and GenAI where appropriate to improve metadata quality, merchant tooling, and operational efficiency. You’ll partner closely with Engineering Managers, Product Managers, Data Scientists, and other senior engineers to deliver systems with measurable business and user impact. What you’ll do: Own end-to-end technical delivery for cross-team initiatives—from problem framing and technical stra

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time
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Who Are We? Postman is the world’s leading API platform, used by more than 45 million+ developers and 500,000 organizations, including 98% of the Fortune 500. Postman is helping developers and professionals across the globe build the API-first world by simplifying each step of the API lifecycle and streamlining collaboration—enabling users to create better APIs, faster. The company is headquartered in San Francisco and has offices in Boston, New York, Austin, Tokyo, London, and Bangalore - where Postman was founded. Postman is privately held, with funding from Battery Ventures, BOND, Coatue, CRV, Insight Partners, and Nexus Venture Partners. Learn more at postman.com or connect with Postman on X via @getpostman. P.S: We highly recommend reading The "API-First World" graphic novel to understand the bigger picture and our vision at Postman. About The Team We're looking for a self-motivated team member who craves a challenge, is obsessed with achieving key business objectives, and wants to work on one of the most loved developer products in the world. Product Marketing is responsible for developing crisp, highly differentiated, and compelling positioning and messaging for Postman and its services. We enable the revenue team to tell stories that educate customers about what is possible when they choose Postman to manage every API and service across their organization. As a Senior or Staff Product Marketing Manager, you will have the opportunity to create compelling content to help customers, especially platform engineers, and developers understand their use cases and value propositions, and build the right marketing programs to drive awareness, engagement, service adoption, and retention. This role sits in San Francisco, CA only. What You’ll Do Act as a product marketing lead for Postman features and services, and take ownership of the strategy to drive awareness and market penetration of key capabilities Work with engineering teams to distill key functional

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📍 United States· Full-time
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At Linear, we're building the product development system for teams and agents. AI is fundamentally changing how software gets built, and we’re shaping the tools this new era requires. Founded in 2019, Linear has become the platform of choice for more than 40,000 companies (including OpenAI, Coinbase, and Ramp) to plan, build, and ship their products. Today, our team is distributed across North America, Europe, and Australia, and we’re continuing to grow internationally. What unites us is relentless focus, fast execution, and a deep care for software craftsmanship. We're looking for a senior to staff level product manager to join the team. In this role, you'll be responsible for leading the development of products end-to-end, from conception through development and rollout. If you're excited to have a lot of ownership while remaining in the details day to day, this might be a great fit for you. Linear is a product-led company that focuses on both building and selling. It's up to you to bring together the building and selling sides of the company in order to create something that our customers will love. Location & work mode Linear is a remote-first company, with optional co-working offices in San Francisco, New York, and London. This role is open to candidates based in North America or Europe time zones. You can work from anywhere within those regions. We value deep focus and async collaboration, with intentional moments to connect in person through team off-sites, optional co-working, and occasional travel. What you'll do Perform up-front discovery through user interviews, competitive research, data analysis, etc. and present findings to the team with conviction and rigor Help engineers and designers deeply understand user needs, empowering them to make great product decisions Craft messaging around upcoming features that resonates with users Enable sales and marketing teams to effectively communicate with and win with customers What we’re looking for 6+ years e

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📍 Work At Home Georgia, United States
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We’re building a world of health around every individual — shaping a more connected, convenient and compassionate health experience. At CVS Health®, you’ll be surrounded by passionate colleagues who care deeply, innovate with purpose, hold ourselves accountable and prioritize safety and quality in everything we do. Join us and be part of something bigger – helping to simplify health care one person, one family and one community at a time. Senior Manager, Platform Engineering / DevOps Who Are You You are an experienced Senior Manager / emerging Staff-level leader in DevOps and Platform Engineering with strong technical depth and demonstrated leadership in delivering enterprise-scale cloud platforms. You bring a balanced mix of hands-on engineering expertise, team leadership, and execution rigor. You excel in driving outcomes in complex, multi-stakeholder environments, guiding teams to deliver secure, scalable, and high-quality platform solutions. You are comfortable leading engineers, managing stakeholders, and owning delivery across multiple workstreams. You demonstrate: A strong ownership mindset with accountability for delivery and outcomes Ability to translate business needs into actionable engineering roadmaps Solid expertise in cloud-native platforms, DevOps practices, and SRE principles Capability to lead teams and influence without requiring extensive tenure Role Responsibilities Development & Enforcement Own and execute the H100 platform engineering roadmap, aligned to enterprise priorities and program milestones Drive delivery of GCP-based platform capabilities (GKE, networking, IAM, CI/CD, observability) Establish and enforce engineering standards, best practices, and ADR compliance <li

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States
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Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence. This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk. Okta is the identity standard. The Okta Platform is an independent and neutral platform that securely connects the right people to the right technologies at the right time. We help organizations do two things - secure and manage their extended enterprise, and transform their users’ experiences. Okta's Core Engineering team is responsible for building and evolving shared infrastructure and services that lay the foundation for what other engineering teams build on. We're in charge of common shared services like search, cache, configuration management, frameworks for async job management, and email pipeline, to name a few. We're cloud native, where redundancy, multi-tenancy, scale, resource optimization and resiliency are first class citizens. With Okta's mantra of 'Always On!' there's never a dull moment. Our biggest asset is our team of passionate engineers and technically minded managers. We're looking for a staff level backend engineer to join a team of highly skilled and talented team players who're proud of what they own and deliver. Our elite team is fast, creative and flexible; with a weekly release cycle and individual ownership we expect great things from our engineers and reward them with stimulating new projects, new technologies and the chance to have significant equity in a company that is changing the cloud computing landscape forever. You will: Work with engineering teams to design, develop and deliver cloud based infrastructu

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📍 New York, New York, United States
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We’re building a world of health around every individual — shaping a more connected, convenient and compassionate health experience. At CVS Health®, you’ll be surrounded by passionate colleagues who care deeply, innovate with purpose, hold ourselves accountable and prioritize safety and quality in everything we do. Join us and be part of something bigger – helping to simplify health care one person, one family and one community at a time. Senior Manager, Platform Engineering / DevOps Who Are You You are an experienced Senior Manager / emerging Staff-level leader in DevOps and Platform Engineering with strong technical depth and demonstrated leadership in delivering enterprise-scale cloud platforms. You bring a balanced mix of hands-on engineering expertise, team leadership, and execution rigor. You excel in driving outcomes in complex, multi-stakeholder environments, guiding teams to deliver secure, scalable, and high-quality platform solutions. You are comfortable leading engineers, managing stakeholders, and owning delivery across multiple workstreams. You demonstrate: A strong ownership mindset with accountability for delivery and outcomes Ability to translate business needs into actionable engineering roadmaps Solid expertise in cloud-native platforms, DevOps practices, and SRE principles Capability to lead teams and influence without requiring extensive tenure Role Responsibilities Development & Enforcement Own and execute the H100 platform engineering roadmap, aligned to enterprise priorities and program milestones Drive delivery of GCP-based platform capabilities (GKE, networking, IAM, CI/CD, observability) Establish and enforce engineering standards, best practices, and ADR compliance</li

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📍 Bellevue, Washington, United States
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Zscaler (NASDAQ: ZS) accelerates digital transformation so customers can be more agile, efficient, resilient, and secure. The Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange™️ platform protects thousands of customers from cyberattacks and data loss by securely connecting users, devices, and applications in any location. Distributed across 160+ public exchanges globally and thousands of private exchanges at the edge, the SASE-based Zero Trust Exchange is the world’s largest in-line cloud security platform. We believe the future of work is Human + AI and are building an AI-native enterprise where human potential is amplified by machine intelligence to solve the world’s hardest security challenges. Driven by deep customer obsession, we are committed to the mission, outcome, and to each other. We bring these commitments to life through three core behaviors: ownership and collaboration, trust through outcomes and impact, and a challenge culture with ongoing feedback. Ready to make an impact at the company pioneering security transformation in the AI era? Join us at Zscaler. 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 across a global, multi-region fleet. 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 systems-level work - OS, network and application debugging - that keeps the fleet operating safely at scale. What You’ll Do (Role Expectations) Maintain h

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