Zscaler

Sr. Staff Technical Program Manager

Zscaler$143K — $205K *
Information Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 8+ years in Technical Program Management or related roles in distributed systems
  • Deep experience with SLIs/SLOs and service health practices
  • Proven track record in leading cross-functional programs at a global scale
  • Strong data fluency in metrics and dashboard instrumentation
  • Demonstrated curiosity towards AI tools and tech integration

Responsibilities

  • Own and execute the company-wide Service Health Program
  • Establish service health practices by defining SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets
  • Drive adoption of Critical User Journey (CUJ) and Lighthouse programs
  • Implement continuous measurement dashboards for service health
  • Run cross-organizational programs for delivery tracking and verification

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health plans
  • Vacation and sick leave time off
  • Parental leave options
  • Retirement plan options
  • Education reimbursement
  • In-office perks and amenities
Full Job Description
Role

We are looking for a Sr. Staff Technical Program Manager - Service Health to join our team. This role is for San Jose, CA (hybrid three days a week) reporting to the Senior Director of Site Reliability Engineering in the Cloud Operations department. Zscaler is seeking a Sr. Staff Technical Program Manager - Service Health to lead the central Service Health Program across the Zero Trust Exchange. You will define and govern service health metrics and operating cadences, align stakeholders, and leverage Critical User Journey (CUJ) and Lighthouse programs to drive durable operational improvements at global scale.

What you'll do (Role Expectations)
  • Own the company-wide Service Health Program from strategy through execution, defining charters, roadmaps, and success metrics across the Zero Trust Exchange
  • Establish and govern service health practices by defining SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets to operationalize decision frameworks that balance feature velocity with reliability
  • Drive Critical User Journey (CUJ) and Lighthouse signal adoption, converting operational alerts into explicit decisions and measurable engineering outcomes
  • Build the service health source of truth by implementing continuous measurement dashboards across security, defects, incidents, capacity, availability, and latency
  • Run continuous operating cadences and cross-organizational programs to standardize intake, prioritization, delivery tracking, and post-delivery verification at scale

Who You Are (Success Profile)
  • You think at scale. You connect day-to-day execution to the overarching company mission, building durable processes and solutions designed for a high-growth global organization.
  • You champion simplicity. You excel at distilling complex technical challenges, user needs, and operational concepts into clear, actionable plans that align teams.
  • You are data-driven. You leverage metrics, telemetry, and evidence to establish truth, measure what matters, and guide informed decisions.
  • You act like an owner. You operate with a strong bias for action and high integrity, moving seamlessly between strategic planning and hands-on execution.
  • You are a high-trust collaborator. You foster alignment across engineering and leadership teams through transparent communication, constructive feedback, and shared accountability.

What We're Looking for (Minimum Qualifications)
  • Demonstrated curiosity and active exploration of AI tools, with a proven history of integrating new technologies to enhance daily workflows and augment problem-solving
  • 8+ years in Technical Program Management, Production Engineering, or similar roles in large-scale, distributed systems
  • Deep experience with SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, and service health practices with demonstrable outcomes improving availability, latency, and durability
  • Proven leadership of cross-functional programs driving production service health at global scale across multi-product, multi-cloud, or multi-region environments
  • Strong data fluency across instrumentation, metrics pipelines, synthetic monitoring, and executive dashboards to translate signal into actionable outcomes
  • Track record of influencing engineers, managers, and senior leadership through clear tradeoff framing, written updates, and decision facilitation

What Will Make You Stand Out (Preferred Qualifications)
  • Background partnering with Production Engineering on incident, problem, and post-incident programs, including RCA quality and preventive action systems
  • Experience implementing operating cadences for service health reviews and OKRs across multiple product lines within networking or cybersecurity domains
  • Familiarity with capacity planning, staged rollout safety guardrails, and reliability engineering practices such as SRE or ITIL

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Zscaler's salary ranges are benchmarked and are determined by role and level. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations and could be higher or lower based on a multitude of factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

The base salary range listed for this full-time position excludes commission/ bonus/ equity (if applicable) + benefits.

Base Pay Range

$143,500-$205,000 USD

Our Benefits program is one of the most important ways we support our employees. Zscaler proudly offers comprehensive and inclusive benefits to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families throughout their life stages, including:

  • Various health plans
  • Time off plans for vacation and sick time
  • Parental leave options
  • Retirement options
  • Education reimbursement
  • In-office perks, and more!


Learn more about Zscaler's hybrid working model and benefits here.

About Zscaler

Zscaler is a cloud-based information security company that provides Internet security, web security, firewalls, sandboxing, SSL inspection, antivirus, vulnerability management and granular control of user activity in cloud computing, mobile and Internet of things environments. The company is headquartered in San Jose, California, and has offices in Australia, India, Japan, Singapore, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
Learn more about Zscaler
Size
3,153 employees
Market Cap
$15.5 billion
Industry
Net Income
-$191.4 million
Founded
2008
5 Year Trend
+54.1%
Revenue
$536 million
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