--- title: 'Senior Recruiter, Technical at Zilliz' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/senior-recruiter-technical-zilliz-redwood-city-r3015tzfhrvh' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-11' --- # Senior Recruiter, Technical at Zilliz - **Company:** Zilliz - **Location:** Redwood City, CA - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** hybrid - **Posted:** 2026-08-24 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11 - **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/zilliz/7f3ac673-b97e-49a7-9970-aa0ca18179b7 ## Job description Zilliz is a fast-growing startup developing the industry’s leading vector database for enterprise-grade AI. Founded by the engineers behind Milvus, the world’s most popular open-source vector database, the company builds next-generation database technologies to help organizations quickly create AI applications. On a mission to democratize AI, Zilliz is committed to simplifying data management for AI applications and making vector databases accessible to every organization. ## About the Role We are looking for a Senior Technical Recruiter to help us build high-performing technical teams across North America and Europe. This is a hands-on, high-ownership role for an experienced recruiter who is comfortable operating in a fast-moving, growth-stage environment. You will own technical searches end to end, partner closely with engineering and technical leaders, and help us identify and attract talent in highly competitive markets. The role will focus primarily on engineering and technical hiring. ## What You'll Do - Own full-cycle recruiting for technical roles across North America and Europe, from intake and sourcing strategy through interviews, offer management, and close. - Partner closely with engineering leaders and hiring managers to understand technical requirements, define candidate profiles, and develop effective search strategies. - Build strong pipelines through proactive sourcing, talent mapping, referrals, communities, and other channels, with particular focus on passive and hard-to-reach candidates. - Develop a strong understanding of relevant technical talent markets, target companies, and candidate backgrounds across infrastructure, database, cloud, AI, and related ecosystems. - Help hiring managers calibrate candidate quality and make informed hiring decisions based on market realities, talent availability, and role requirements. - Deliver a thoughtful and consistent candidate experience while maintaining strong pace, follow-through, and communication throughout the process. - Use recruiting data and market insights to identify pipeline gaps, adjust sourcing strategies, and improve hiring outcomes. - Contribute to recruiting process improvements, interview quality, employer branding, agency strategy, and other initiatives that strengthen our technical recruiting capability. - Share market knowledge and recruiting best practices and provide mentorship to other recruiters as the team grows. ## What We're Looking For - 5+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, with significant experience hiring technical talent. - Strong track record of independently managing complex and competitive technical searches from intake through close. - Strong direct sourcing capability and experience identifying and engaging passive candidates. - Experience recruiting for software engineering, infrastructure, cloud, database, distributed systems, SRE, AI/ML infrastructure, or related technical functions. - Ability to understand technical roles beyond keywords and translate hiring needs into effective sourcing and assessment strategies. - Experience partnering directly with senior engineering leaders and hiring managers. - Strong communication, stakeholder management, and organizational skills. - Ability to manage multiple searches with different levels of urgency and complexity. - Experience supporting hiring across North America and Europe or other international markets is preferred. ## How You Operate - High ownership and bias for action. You take responsibility for outcomes, keep searches moving, and actively solve problems rather than waiting for perfect conditions. - Resilient and adaptable. You stay effective when searches are difficult, priorities change, or the first approach does not work. - Curious and business-minded. You invest time in understanding the technology, the team, and the business context behind each search, and use that understanding to improve your recruiting approach. - Low ego and collaborative. You work closely with hiring managers, HR colleagues, and other recruiters and care more about getting to the right outcome than protecting a narrow scope of responsibility. ## Nice to Have - Experience recruiting in an early-stage or high-growth technology company. - Experience hiring in database, data infrastructure, AI infrastructure, developer tools, cloud infrastructure, or open-source companies. - Familiarity with technical talent markets across companies such as database, cloud, infrastructure, and developer platform vendors. - Experience building technical talent maps or proactive pipelines ahead of immediate hiring needs. - Experience mentoring recruiters or helping build recruiting processes and capabilities. Zilliz is an Equal Opportunity Employer and welcomes people from all backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment regardless of race, color, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, age, physical disability, or length of time spent unemployed. ## About Zilliz ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Zilliz builds the world’s most popular open-source vector database, Milvus, and offers a fully managed Vector Lakebase to power enterprise AI applications at any scale. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series B, $113M total funding) - **Headquarters**: Redwood City, California, United States - **Founded**: 2017 - **Founders**: Charles Xie (CEO) and James Luan (CTO) ## Core Business - **Primary industries**: Vector database management, AI infrastructure, software development - **Target customers**: B2B enterprise (10,000+ enterprise users) - **Mission**: To make vector database capabilities accessible to every developer and organization, helping them harness unstructured data for AI/ML applications. ## Products & Services - **[Milvus (Open-Source Vector Database)](https://zilliz.com/about)**: The leading open-source vector database, originally created by Zilliz and hosted under LF AI. Enables billion-scale similarity search, hybrid retrieval (vector, text, JSON, geospatial), and is production-tested across thousands of enterprises. - **[Zilliz Vector Lakebase](https://zilliz.com/)**: A fully managed cloud service built on Milvus that unifies real-time vector search, lake-scale discovery, and AI data operations. Features include on-demand pay-per-query pricing, hot-cache on S3 for 90% cost reduction, multi-tenancy, and seamless backfill/schema iteration. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed - **Key Metric**: Total funding of $113 million; annual revenue estimated at $2.2 million (as of latest report) - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Series A led by 5Y Capital (2018); Series B led by Hillhouse Investment ($43M, 2020); Series B extension led by Prosperity7 Ventures ($60M, 2022) - **Growth Signals**: 91 employees (8.9% YoY growth); 25,000+ LinkedIn followers (100% yearly growth); 10 active job postings (42.9% increase YoY); offices in Redwood City, New York, Shanghai, London, Berlin, Singapore ## Competitive Advantages - **Open-source ecosystem**: Milvus is the most widely adopted open-source vector database, with a strong community and 10,000+ enterprise users. - **Proven at scale**: Production-tested over 8 years, handling 100B+ entities and 10K+ QPS with consistent latency. - **Cost efficiency**: All data/indexes stored on S3 with hot cache; on-demand compute reduces costs by up to 90%. - **Full-spectrum search**: Supports hybrid retrieval combining vector, text, JSON, and geospatial queries with filtering and reranking. - **Vortex format**: An open, next-gen storage format that delivers up to 10x faster random reads than Lance, with per-column flexibility. ## Strategic Focus - **Enterprise AI adoption**: Expanding the Vector Lakebase to serve massive multi-tenancy, global replication, and low-latency access for AI applications. - **Global expansion**: Multi-region deployment and offices across the US, Europe, and Asia to support worldwide AI scaling. - **Continuous innovation**: Investing in research (vector index research roles) and cloud platform reliability to maintain leadership in vector database technology. ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: Deep technical culture built by the creators of Milvus; engineers and scientists focused on advancing AI and data infrastructure. - **Work model**: Hybrid/remote opportunities available; offices in Redwood City, New York, Shanghai, London, Berlin, and Singapore. - **Benefits**: Competitive compensation (cash + equity), regular bonus and equity refresh, comprehensive medical/dental/vision, generous PTO, 401(k) and regional retirement plans, and paid sick leave. - **Engineering culture**: Work on cutting-edge technology at the intersection of databases and AI, with opportunities to contribute to open source and solve real-world scale challenges. ## Sources 1. [zilliz.com/careers](https://zilliz.com/careers) – Benefits, hybrid work model, company mission 2. [zilliz.com/about](https://zilliz.com/about) – Founding story, leadership, locations, investment, enterprise users 3. [zilliz.com](https://zilliz.com/) – Product details (Vector Lakebase, features, cost savings, scale) 4. [cr.linkedin.com/company/zilliz](https://cr.linkedin.com/company/zilliz) – Employee count, revenue, funding rounds, job postings, demographics 5. 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