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[Remote] Production Engineer

Remote · South Africa Full-time

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Zscaler is an AI-forward enterprise focused on digital transformation and cybersecurity. They are seeking a Production Engineer to enhance the reliability of their global platform while driving an automation-first culture across the company.

Responsibilities

  • Implement highly available, scalable infrastructure across AWS, 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
  • Act as a lead Incident Commander (TDO on-call), develop response playbooks, and conduct deep-dive post-incident analyses
  • Partner with Engineering and partner teams to conduct operability reviews

Skills

  • Demonstrated curiosity and active exploration of AI tools, with a proven history of integrating new technologies to enhance daily workflows and augment problem-solving
  • 1-3 years of experience managing reliability, scalability, and availability for large-scale production services
  • Deep expertise in programming (e.g., Python, Go, or C/C++)
  • Strong background in networking protocols, Linux/RHEL systems, and distributed architecture
  • Experience in high-stakes incident management and participation in a 24/7 on-call rotation
  • Proficiency in leveraging ITIL frameworks and incident data to drive service maturity through systematic problem management and technical operability reviews
  • Extensive experience with public cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP) and Infrastructure-as-Code (Ansible, Terraform, Helm, Temporal)
  • Experience with chaos engineering and disaster recovery planning at scale
  • Expertise in global routing (BGP) and traffic tunneling (GRE, IPSec) with a deep understanding of L7 proxy architectures (HAProxy), DNS at scale, and OS networking stack internals

Benefits

  • Various health plans
  • Time off plans for vacation and sick time
  • Parental leave options
  • Retirement options
  • Education reimbursement
  • In-office perks

Company Overview

  • Zscaler is a global cloud-based information security company that enables secure digital transformation for mobile and cloud. It was founded in 2008, and is headquartered in San Jose, California, USA, with a workforce of 5001-10000 employees. Its website is https://www.zscaler.com.
  • Company H1B Sponsorship

  • Zscaler has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 51 in 2026, 164 in 2025, 220 in 2024, 108 in 2023, 144 in 2022, 82 in 2021, 51 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.
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