Senior Cloud Platform Reliability Engineer

Zilliz; Redwood City (CA); On-site; USD 125,000 - 185,000; Full time

Job summary

Zilliz is seeking an experienced DevOps/Platform Engineer to own the reliability and production stability of Zilliz Cloud as we scale. You will debug issues across Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, networking, storage, and distributed databases in production.

Join a small, fast-moving Cloud Platform team that values automation over toil and real ownership. Candidates should have 3+ years building or operating production cloud systems and strong cloud tooling experience.

Qualifications

• 3+ years building or operating production cloud systems, infrastructure platforms, database systems, or large-scale online services.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and at least one major cloud platform (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
• Solid understanding of distributed systems; availability, scalability, performance, failure recovery, and operational tradeoffs.

Responsibilities

• Own the reliability, availability, and production stability of Zilliz Cloud as we scale through the next stage of growth.
• Debug complex production issues across Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, networking, storage, and distributed database systems.
• Build automation and diagnostic tooling; log analysis, alert correlation, incident investigation, runbook automation, and remediation workflows so problems get solved once, not repeatedly.
• Turn recurring incidents into reusable tools, automation, documentation, and product improvements.
• Improve observability across latency, availability, throughput, and resource efficiency.
• Partner with database and infrastructure engineers to make Zilliz Cloud more reliable, scalable, and automated.

Skills

Kubernetes

Docker

Cloud platforms

Distributed systems

CI/CD tooling

Observability

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related

Tools

Terraform

Helm

Argo CD

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

Zilliz is seeking an experienced DevOps/Platform Engineer to own the reliability and production stability of Zilliz Cloud as we scale. You will debug issues across Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, networking, storage, and distributed databases in production.

Join a small, fast-moving Cloud Platform team that values automation over toil and real ownership. Candidates should have 3+ years building or operating production cloud systems and strong cloud tooling experience.