Senior Platform Engineer (SRE) - Government Cloud Operations

Zoom • San Jose, CA

3d • $98,900 - $228,700 • Hybrid

About The Position

In this role, you will be responsible for the reliability, scalability, and operational excellence of Zoom's government and military-facing products. A core focus is deploying and evolving our observability platform, working across Kubernetes, Terraform, and cloud infrastructure to build the systems and frameworks that set the standard for how the team operates. This is a hands-on, on-call engineering role: you will own the systems you build, respond to production incidents with urgency, and deliver permanent improvements.

We build and own the cloud infrastructure behind Zoom's government products, operating with full end-to-end accountability. Our team moves fast, solves hard problems, and makes a direct impact where reliability is non-negotiable.

Requirements

• Holds U.S. Citizenship or Lawful Permanent Resident (Green Card) status
• Brings 4–5+ years of hands-on experience in Platform Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or Production Engineering in a live production environment
• Demonstrates production-grade Kubernetes experience, including workload operations, troubleshooting, and cluster-level architectural design at scale
• Authors Terraform modules and providers from scratch, not limited to applying or executing existing configurations
• Owns incidents end-to-end - proven on-call experience including structured triage, resolution, and post-incident review with documented root cause analysis
• Deploys, operates, or improves observability or monitoring platforms at production scale, with scripting proficiency in Python and/or Bash for automation and operational tooling
• Communicates clearly in writing - produces runbooks, incident reports, methods of procedure, and architectural documentation to a high standard

Nice To Haves

• Has hands-on Datadog experience building observability frameworks in a production environment, ideally within a government, FedRAMP, or high-compliance cloud context
• Experience operating within FedRAMP, AWS GovCloud, or other regulated or compliance-driven cloud environments
• Hands-on experience with popular open-source observability tooling in a production context
• Background supporting 24/7 or mission-critical production operations
• Experience driving cross-team adoption of operational standards or tooling frameworks
• Oracle OCI hands-on operational experience
• Familiarity with container image security and CVE remediation workflows

Responsibilities

• Architecting and owning the end-to-end deployment lifecycle of Zoom's observability platform across AWS GovCloud and Oracle OCI, streamlining processes, eliminating manual steps, and setting the standard for how teams deploy at scale
• Designing and building Terraform modules and providers from scratch, alongside GitLab CI/CD pipelines, to automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration management across development and production environments
• Operating and improving production Kubernetes workloads at scale, leading incident response, driving root cause analysis, and delivering permanent fixes that reduce outage risk and improve system resilience
• Developing reusable frameworks, runbooks, and operational standards that engineering teams across the organization can adopt — raising the bar on observability onboarding, alerting coverage, and operational readiness
• Collaborating with engineering teams to define and track SLOs and SLIs, contribute to architecture and design reviews, and systematically eliminate toil through automation and thoughtful infrastructure design

Benefits

• Zoom has a Total Direct Compensation philosophy that takes into consideration; base salary, bonus and equity value.
• We also have a location based compensation structure; there may be a different range for candidates in this and other locations
• 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed