Zalo is hiring: Senior System Engineer (Ho Chi Minh City)

The role

Zalo is looking for a Senior System Engineer in Ho Chi Minh City to deploy, operate, and optimize its physical server fleet, compute clusters, and distributed storage systems. You will administer Kubernetes and Hadoop YARN platforms, maintain distributed storage clusters (Ceph, MinIO, HDFS), tune and harden Linux servers, set up monitoring, alerting, backup, and disaster-recovery pipelines, and automate repetitive operational workflows using Bash, Python, and Ansible.

What they ask for

• A bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field.
• At least 3 years of hands-on production experience as a System Administrator, IT Infrastructure Engineer, DevOps Engineer, or SRE.
• Strong proficiency in Linux administration and networking, along with practical experience operating reverse proxies/web servers, containers (Docker/Podman), identity and access management (SSO, LDAP/AD, IAM), and secret management.
• Solid skills in log analysis, building monitoring dashboards and alerts, tracking resource usage, and automating tasks with Python, Bash, and Ansible.
• Working knowledge of Git, CI/CD pipelines, access control, data protection, and using LLM APIs or AI tools in day-to-day engineering work.

Good to know

• Location: Ho Chi Minh City, in Vietnam.
• Job ID: senior-system-engineer-20261016 (posted October 16, 2026 on Zalo Careers).

How the interview usually goes

Zalo's system engineering interviews usually test Linux administration and troubleshooting, networking, container and Kubernetes operations, distributed storage fundamentals (such as Ceph, MinIO, or HDFS), and scripting/automation in Bash or Python.