# Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Platform at Zilliz Cloud

- Company: Zilliz Cloud
- What the company does: Zilliz offers a fully managed Vector Lakebase powered by Milvus, unifying real-time vector search, lake-scale discovery, and AI data operations. Available across AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure regions worldwide. Backed by AI Grant.
- Company website: https://zilliz.com/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: Redwood City
- Work setup: Hybrid
- Pay: $175K to $225K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-06-22
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.lever.co/zilliz/193ba194-6df6-4894-9f1b-05ace809c60a
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/zilliz-cloud-senior-software-engineer-cloud-platform/

## About the role

We're entering our next phase of 10x growth: more customers, larger datasets, more complex AI workloads, and higher expectations for reliability, performance, and cost efficiency. You'll join a small, fast-moving Cloud Platform team building the core platform capabilities that run Zilliz Cloud at scale across multi-cloud environments.

## What they're looking for

- 3+ years of experience building production systems such as large-scale SaaS platforms, data platforms, AI applications, microservices, or cloud infrastructure
- 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 such as AWS, GCP, or Azure
- Familiarity with infrastructure automation and cloud operations tooling such as Terraform, Helm, Argo CD, Prometheus, Grafana, CI/CD systems, or similar tools
- Experience building cloud-native platform systems is a strong plus, including scheduling, orchestration, deployment, configuration, upgrades, lifecycle management, or resource management
- Understanding of distributed databases or database engine internals is a strong plus, especially around scalability, performance, reliability, and multi-tenant isolation

Tags: Cloud Platform