Go SRE Tech Lead: Kubernetes & Distributed Systems

Cisco Systems, Inc; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 187,000 - 268,000; Full time

Job summary

Cisco Systems, Inc is seeking a technical lead for our Kubernetes Site Reliability Engineering team in the United States. The initial focus is migrating a globally distributed service from AWS-hosted Kubernetes clusters to an internal data-center-based platform, with ongoing production operations and platform engineering contributions.

The role requires 8+ years in software/SRE, strong Kubernetes and Go skills, and expertise in networking, observability, and incident response.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software, SRE, or infrastructure engineering experience.
• Experience designing and operating large distributed services on Kubernetes.
• 5+ years of Go or similar systems programming language.
• Experience with incident response, performance analysis, and observability.
• Strong Linux and networking knowledge (IPv4/IPv6, TCP, DNS, TLS).

Responsibilities

• Lead migration of workloads from AWS-hosted Kubernetes to internal platform.
• Ensure operation and reliability of specialized Kubernetes workloads.
• Design, implement, and maintain production Go software for distributed systems.
• Drive SRE readiness via SLIs/SLOs, testing, and on-call support.
• Collaborate with cross-team groups to prioritize changes.

Skills

Kubernetes

Go programming

Linux networking

Incident response

Observability

Tools

OpenTelemetry

Prometheus

Datadog

GitLab CI/CD

Docker

Kustomize

Git

Job description

Cisco Systems, Inc is seeking a technical lead for our Kubernetes Site Reliability Engineering team in the United States. The initial focus is migrating a globally distributed service from AWS-hosted Kubernetes clusters to an internal data-center-based platform, with ongoing production operations and platform engineering contributions.

The role requires 8+ years in software/SRE, strong Kubernetes and Go skills, and expertise in networking, observability, and incident response.