Senior Lead Site Reliability Engineer - Hybrid/Remote

Socket.dev; San Jose (CA); Hybrid; USD 147,000 - 339,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Benefits program

Flexible work options

Job summary

Zoom is seeking a Senior Lead Site Reliability Engineer to drive cross-team reliability programs and champion automation across global data centers. You will supervise incident responses, mentor teams, and shape platform architecture with Security and Networking partners.

Strong Linux, Python, and IaC skills are required, along with experience in chaos engineering and distributed storage. The role supports a hybrid/work-from-office model with global operations and on-call duties; starting

Qualifications

• 10+ years in SRE, production engineering, or large-scale systems administration.
• Have Linux system administration experience (systemd, cgroups, networking, filesystems, performance analysis).
• Demonstrate coding ability with at least one programming language (e.g., Python).
• Experience with configuration management (Ansible), IaC (Terraform, Packer), CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitLab), container orchestration (K8s, Docker) and observability platforms.
• Experience with incident response for mission-critical environments.
• Security-first mindset (TPM, secure boot, identity, secrets management).
• Networking expertise: BGP, load balancing, DNS, TLS, traffic engineering.
• Chaos engineering and resilience testing; distributed storage such as Ceph.

Responsibilities

• Providing technical direction for cross-team initiatives and major incidents.
• Mentor SREs and developers; define best practices and design patterns.
• Partner with Security, Networking, and Platform teams on architecture roadmaps.
• Influence vendor and hardware strategy for on-prem and cloud workloads.
• Design self-healing platforms using automation, chaos engineering, and fault-tolerant patterns.
• Optimize Linux systems at scale: performance tuning, kernel parameters, networking, storage, and security hardening.
• Define best practices and advocate for them across the company.
• Excellent communication; drive cross-team projects as a technical lead.
• Participate in on-call shifts and incident management; work after hours/weekends for releases.

Skills

SRE leadership

Linux system admin

Python coding

Ansible

Terraform

Packer

Jenkins / GitLab CI

Kubernetes / Docker

Incident response

Security mindset

Networking (BGP, DNS, TLS)

Chaos engineering

Ceph / distributed storage

Tools

Ansible

Terraform

Packer

Jenkins

GitLab

Kubernetes

Docker

Ceph

Job description

Zoom is seeking a Senior Lead Site Reliability Engineer to drive cross-team reliability programs and champion automation across global data centers. You will supervise incident responses, mentor teams, and shape platform architecture with Security and Networking partners.

Strong Linux, Python, and IaC skills are required, along with experience in chaos engineering and distributed storage. The role supports a hybrid/work-from-office model with global operations and on-call duties; starting