13 hours ago
Base Salary
$168k - $245k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and management of large-scale, highly available distributed systems.
- Collaborate with application teams to improve SaaS platform performance, reliability, and security.
- Deploy resilient AWS cloud-native services across a multi-region, microservice-based architecture.
- Use Kubernetes, Prometheus, and service mesh technologies to standardize operations.
- Develop automation for deployment, chaos testing, and everything-as-code strategies.
- Identify and resolve operational obstacles while ensuring scalability under substantial daily data volumes.
- Support incident response, change management, deployment strategies, and SLO practices.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree plus 7 years of related experience, master’s degree plus 4 years, PhD plus 1 year, or equivalent related work experience.
- Proficiency in software development with Python or Go.
- Ability to build scalable, well-tested, security-focused solutions integrating security protocols throughout the development and deployment lifecycle.
- Strong understanding of Unix/Linux systems, including kernels, system libraries, file systems, and client-server protocols.
- Knowledge of Site Reliability principles, including incident response, change management, distributed systems, deployment strategies, and SLOs.
- Preferred experience operating large-scale, highly available enterprise platforms.
- Preferred expert-level knowledge of Kubernetes and its ecosystem.
- Preferred in-depth knowledge of cloud providers, particularly AWS.
- Strong communication, documentation, ownership, drive, and attention to detail.
Benefits
- Hybrid work model with in-office attendance twice per week in San Francisco, Seattle, Austin, or New York.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) with Cisco matching contributions, paid parental leave, disability coverage, and basic life insurance, subject to eligibility.
- Potential eligibility for Cisco restricted stock unit grants.
- Paid holidays, birthday leave, year-end shutdown, personal wellness days, vacation or flexible vacation time, and sick time.
- Optional 10 paid volunteer days per year.
- Additional paid time away may be available for critical or emergency family issues.
- Non-sales employees may be eligible for annual bonuses under Cisco policies.
Tech Stack
Categories
Site Reliability
About Cisco
Cisco designs and sells networking, security, and collaboration platforms for enterprises, service providers, and governments, spanning routers and switches, Wi‑Fi, firewalls, zero‑trust, observability, and cloud-managed IT (Meraki) plus Webex. Its business model mixes hardware, software subscriptions, and support/consulting services. Founded in 1984 and headquartered in San Jose, California, Cisco is a public company traded on Nasdaq and serves customers across data centers, campuses, and service provider networks.