Site Reliability Engineer
Published: 2025-11-04Vision care can be surprisingly expensive. Concerned that the ability to see costs people hundreds of dollars, two visionaries founded Zenni in 2003 as one of the first online-only shops for affordable prescription glasses. They were able to provide affordable and accessible eyewear to everyone by cutting the middleman out and going directly to consumers. What started as a small, ...
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Who We Are
Born from a mission to make prescription eyewear affordable and accessible to everyone, Zenni Optical has been changing the way people see the world since 2003. With complete prescription pairs for adults and kids starting at under $10, we’ve grown into a global brand with over 51 million pairs of glasses sold — and counting!
Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, we're proud to be the Official Eyewear of the San Francisco 49ers, Boston Celtics, Monster Jam, Ghost Gaming, TSM, Major League Pickleball and more. We've also partnered with tastemakers and designers like Chase Stokes, Jrue Holiday, and George and Claire Kittle to bring our brand to life in bold, meaningful ways.
Innovation is at the heart of everything we do at Zenni — from our revolutionary EyeQLenz™ with Zenni ID Guard™ glasses to our cutting-edge VR Vision Screener, we're constantly exploring new ways to improve vision and enhance lives. For more information, please visit zenni.com/press.
Candidate safety is important to us. Please note that all official communication will only be sent from @zennioptical.com addresses.
Position Overview:
Zenni is looking for Site Reliability Engineers to join our team to help build. optimize and scale the cloud infrastructure for our next-generation ecommerce platform. The SREs are responsible for the Cloud Infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, Security and monitoring. Zenni Optical is a critical 24x7 ecommerce operation that handles millions of users per month so the primary responsibility of the SRE team is to make sure our platform is fast, efficient, reliable, secure and cost efficient.
You will be working closely with the architects and engineers at Zenni to develop and deploy secure, highly available and scalable web services. This is a phenomenal role for someone who believes in building automation, driving simplification and crafting an impressive, five nines culture. We are looking for someone with an "automation" mindset.
What we want you to own in this role:
- End to End Automation of application build and deployment
- Ongoing scaling of our platform to support forecasted peak traffic
- “Infrastructure as code” standardization and improving automation of systems, processes, and services
- Provisioning and configure Cloud resources, Self-hosted tools and 3rd party integrations
- Maintaining development and production environments
- Platform optimization including response time, error rate, cost effectiveness etc.
- Participate in on-call rotation
What skills do you need?
- This is an intermediate level position, you should have at least 5 years of production engineering experience
- Experience with Kubernetes environments
- Solid understanding of web application configuration and deployment
- Experience with managing services on at least one cloud platform (AWS, GCP, Azure)
- Experience with CI/CD tools – GitHub workflows, GCP Cloud Build, Harness, Argo CD.
- Hands-on experience with infrastructure as code using Terraform
- Ability to code in at least one programming language
- Good communication and collaboration skills
- Being proficient in an English working environment
Nice to Have
- Hands-on experience with GCP services – Cloud Run, Cloud Build, PubSub, GKE, Firestore, Cloud Armor, Cloud CDN will be a huge plus
- Experience with CDN systems like Akamai, Cloudflare
- Experience with Security best practices for Cloud
- Understand GitOps deployment methodology
- eCommerce experience - Oracle ATG or Magento
We look forward to hearing from you!
We strive to build a diverse team of individuals with a broad range of experience and perspectives. We encourage you to apply even if you don’t feel you meet all the qualifications.
Zenni Optical is an equal opportunity workplace and considers applications without regard to race, color, national origin, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.