Senior DevOps Engineer
Zoom · San Jose, CA
About this role
Zoom is hiring a senior-level DevOps Engineer in the software engineering function based in San Jose, CA. The posting calls out experience with Python, Bash, AWS, GCP.
- Role
- DevOps Engineer
- Function
- software engineering
- Level
- senior
- Track
- Individual contributor
- Employment
- Full-time
- Location
- San Jose, CA
- Posted
- Jun 1, 2026
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Job description
from Zoom careersWhat you can expect
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.
About the Team
This team manages essential meeting service operations at Zoom. We handle global, large-scale distributed systems and advance communication technology to connect individuals across physical distances.
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.
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