What we are looking for:

• 3+ years of experience building or operating production cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, database platforms, or large-scale online services.
• Strong software engineering skills in Go, Python, or similar languages, with experience developing production tooling, automation, or infrastructure services.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and at least one major cloud platform (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
• Solid understanding of distributed systems, including availability, scalability, performance, fault tolerance, failure recovery, and operational tradeoffs.
• Strong troubleshooting skills across Linux, networking, storage, and cloud infrastructure, with the ability to investigate complex production issues across different system layers.
• Experience supporting production services, participating in incident response, and diagnosing reliability or performance problems in live environments.
• Familiarity with modern infrastructure and observability tools such as Terraform, Helm, Argo CD, Prometheus, Grafana, and CI/CD systems.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to move from immediate incident resolution to sustainable engineering solutions.
• Ability to work independently, communicate clearly during production incidents, and collaborate effectively with engineers across teams and time zones.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience with distributed databases, storage engines, search systems, or other data-intensive infrastructure.
• Experience operating large-scale, highly multi-tenant environments, including infrastructure fleets with thousands of nodes, clusters, tenants, or customer deployments.
• Experience with multi-cloud environments, service-level objectives (SLOs), capacity planning, or reliability engineering practices at scale.

How we operate:

• High ownership and autonomy. We trust engineers to take responsibility for outcomes, not just individual tasks. You'll have the opportunity to investigate problems across system boundaries, influence engineering decisions, and drive improvements through to production.
• Engineering over repetitive operations. We believe the best way to improve reliability is to make systems easier to operate. We invest in automation, reusable tooling, and engineering solutions that reduce operational overhead as we scale.
• Fast and pragmatic. We're a growing engineering team that values speed, initiative, and thoughtful execution. We move quickly while maintaining the technical discipline needed to operate critical production infrastructure.
• Globally distributed collaboration. We work closely with engineering teams across regions and time zones. Our on-call model is designed around regional timezone coverage rather than routine overnight paging, with occasional early morning or evening collaboration to support our global operations.

Benefits

• Comprehensive Health Coverage: Medical, dental, and vision insurance plans for employees and eligible family members.
• Unlimited PTO: Flexible paid time off to rest, recharge, and take care of personal needs.
• Competitive Compensation and Equity: Competitive cash compensation and long-term incentive opportunities, including stock options.
• 401(k) with Company Match: Retirement savings plan with employer matching contributions.

Zilliz is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

Compensation: USD 150,000 – 240,000 per year salary