# Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Reliability 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: 2025-05-15
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.lever.co/zilliz/7f796a0b-c1a5-4011-9e28-1cf9384e4c49
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/zilliz-cloud-senior-software-engineer-cloud-reliability/

## About the role

We're entering our next phase of 10x growth; more customers, larger datasets, and far higher expectations for reliability. You'll join a small, fast-moving Cloud Platform team that operates large-scale, multi-cloud, distributed database systems in production. This is a high-ownership role for engineers who want to move fast, build automation instead of toil, and take real responsibility for production stability.

## What they're looking for

- 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
- Experience with distributed databases, storage systems, search systems, or large-scale online systems is a strong plus
- Experience operating highly multi-tenant systems or large infrastructure fleets, thousands of nodes, clusters, tenants, or customer deployments is especially valuable

Tags: Cloud Platform