13 days 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 platform 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.
- Apply site reliability practices including incident response, change management, deployment strategies, distributed systems management, and SLOs.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree plus 7 years of related experience, or master’s degree plus 4 years, or 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 and integrate security protocols throughout development and deployment.
- Strong understanding of Unix/Linux systems, including kernels, system libraries, file systems, and client-server protocols.
- Knowledge of site reliability principles and practices.
- Familiarity with operating large-scale, highly available enterprise platforms.
- Expert-level knowledge of Kubernetes and its ecosystem.
- In-depth knowledge of cloud providers, preferably AWS.
- Strong communication, documentation, ownership, initiative, and attention to detail.
Benefits
- Hybrid work model with in-office attendance two times per week in San Francisco, Seattle, Austin, or New York.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with Cisco matching contributions, paid parental leave, disability coverage, and basic life insurance, subject to eligibility.
- Eligibility for Cisco restricted stock unit grants.
- Paid holidays, floating and birthday holidays, year-end shutdown, personal wellness days, vacation or flexible vacation time, and sick leave.
- Optional paid volunteer time and additional paid time away for critical family or emergency issues.
- Eligibility for annual bonuses for non-sales roles.
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.