Senior Site Reliability Engineer

About Zuora

At Zuora, we help businesses grow smarter and adapt faster. Our platform powers modern business models — from subscriptions and usage-based pricing to AI-driven and outcome-based offerings — helping companies launch new products, automate complex billing, and unlock predictable, recurring revenue.

We’ve led the Subscription Economy for more than a decade. Now we’re evolving again by building the definitive platform for quote to cash and helping companies monetize their products and services with an adaptable, AI-ready foundation.

The Opportunity

We’re hiring a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to lead reliability strategy and drive AI-powered automation at scale. This role involves owning complex systems, shaping architecture, and influencing cross-functional teams.

You’ll:

• Define and evolve SLOs, SLIs, and resilience patterns
• Build AI-driven automation for detection, remediation, and forecasting
• Lead cloud infrastructure and Kubernetes platforms
• Drive incident response and operational excellence
• Mentor engineers and influence org-wide reliability practices

About You

• 8+ years of hands-on experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or large-scale production operations.
• Advanced expertise in AWS, including architecture design across services such as EC2, EKS, VPC, IAM, RDS, S3, and CloudWatch.
• Deep experience with Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform, including complex modules, state management, and governance.
• Strong programming and automation skills using Python and Shell; experience building production-grade automation systems.
• Expert-level Linux systems knowledge, including performance tuning, security hardening, and deep troubleshooting.
• Proven experience operating distributed systems and data streaming platforms such as Kafka in high-throughput environments.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently on complex, ambiguous problems with broad organizational impact.
• Proven technical leadership experience driving large, cross-team reliability or infrastructure initiatives, including setting technical direction, influencing design decisions, and mentoring engineers to deliver measurable outcomes at scale.

AI & Automation Expertise

• Practical experience designing or implementing AI/ML-driven automation in operations, reliability, or platform engineering.
• Experience integrating AI capabilities into monitoring, alerting, incident response, or workflow automation systems.
• Strong understanding of how AI can be safely and effectively applied in production environments.

Nice to haves:

• Experience with advanced observability platforms (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, or similar) enhanced with AI-driven insights.
• Familiarity with predictive analytics, anomaly detection, or AIOps platforms.
• Experience influencing architectural decisions at a platform or product level.
• Prior experience operating in a 24/7, global, high-availability SaaS environment.

The Team

Zuora's Cloud Engineering team ensures the reliability, scalability, and operational excellence of global SaaS platforms, operating 24x7 with a follow-the-sun model. The team collaborates closely with Engineering, Security,Product, and Support, leveraging technologies like AWS,Kubernetes, Kafka,Terraform, and Python, with a strong focus on AI-driven operations and automation.

Benefits

Zuora offers a comprehensive total rewards package designed to support ZEOs’ wellbeing, growth, and flexibility. While specific offerings may vary by country, we typically provide:

• Competitive compensation, variable bonus and performance-based reward opportunities, and retirement programs
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Generous, flexible time off, plus paid holidays, wellness days, and a company-wide year-end break
• Paid parental leave (including fully paid leave fo