Senior DevOps Engineer
Zoom•San Jose, CA
•$98,900 - $228,700•Hybrid
About The Position
We are hiring a Senior DevOps Engineer to drive the reliability, scalability, and operational health of our realtime communications platform. You will be responsible for the day-to-day excellence of services supporting audio/video conferencing, recording, and live-streaming. This role requires a hands-on expert who can bridge the gap between complex infrastructure engineering and seamless product delivery within a global team environment.
Requirements
- Hold qualifications in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related discipline.
- Possess 6+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure engineering, demonstrating success in supporting large-scale, latency-sensitive production systems.
- Gain expertise in supporting media-focused platforms such as video conferencing, streaming, gaming, or high-frequency trading environments.
- Display knowledge of real-time protocols, including WebRTC, RTP/RTCP, and SFU/MCU topologies, with practical application in production settings.
- Develop advanced skills in cloud platforms like AWS, GCP, or Azure, and manage Kubernetes environments using tools like Helm and ArgoCD.
- Use deployment orchestration tools and progressive delivery methods, including Canary, Blue/Green deployments, and Feature Flags, to enhance release processes.
- Understand networking principles, including DNS, Load Balancing, and CDN architecture, to ensure system reliability and performance.
- Write automation scripts using Python, Go, or Bash to create tools and improve incident response efficiency.
Responsibilities
- Ensuring reliability and operations by owning the SLO/SLI framework for specific real-time services while tracking latency, availability, jitter, and packet loss metrics.
- Acting as an on-call responder during critical outages, guiding technical resolution, and participating in a global follow-the-sun rotation.
- Facilitating blameless postmortems and implementing technical action items to prevent recurring issues.
- Promoting preventive engineering by integrating automated guardrails into the development lifecycle to uphold architectural best practices before production deployment.
- Supervising the release management process for real-time services, executing high-frequency deployments with minimal risk through versioning and complex rollout orchestration across environments.
- Developing scalable infrastructure using Terraform and adhering to GitOps principles to ensure consistent configurations.
- Optimizing CI/CD pipelines with tools like GitHub Actions and Jenkins, employing canary releases and blue/green strategies for safe deployments.
- Collaborating with software engineering teams to provide operational insights during the design phase, advocating for reliability-focused practices.
- Working alongside global engineering hubs to offer technical context and maintain comprehensive documentation, including runbooks and KBAs.
Benefits
- Total Direct Compensation philosophy that takes into consideration; base salary, bonus and equity value.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
