Senior SRE: Cloud Native Reliability & Kubernetes

Cisco Systems, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Cisco ThousandEyes is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to design and operate large‑scale, highly available distributed systems in the cloud. The role collaborates with application teams to boost reliability, performance, and security of the platform.

You will drive 24x7 incident response, on‑call rotations, and automation across Kubernetes, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, and ArgoCD. Hybrid work with weekly in‑office attendance in SF, Seattle, Austin or New York is offered.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in a related role.
• Proficiency in Python or Go.
• Ability to build scalable, secure, well-tested solutions across dev and prod lifecycles.
• Strong understanding of Unix/Linux systems and client‑server protocols.
• Knowledge of Site Reliability principles: Incident Response, Change Management, Distributed Systems, Deployment Strategies, and SLOs.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with software engineers to optimize architecture for availability and latency.
• Design and implement scalable operations tooling for multi‑region growth.
• Deploy and maintain AWS cloud‑native services that are elastic and fault‑tolerant.
• Participate in 24x7 incident response and on‑call rotation.
• Leverage Kubernetes, Service Mesh, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, and ArgoCD to improve system reliability.
• Automate production operations and guardrails; enable scalable service deployment and testing.
• Develop automation for scalable platform operations including chaos testing and scale testing.
• Stay updated on industry best practices for scalability and reliability across the ThousandEyes platform.
• Identify obstacles hindering operations excellence and provide solutions across engineering teams.
• Generalize and standardize processes for repeatable success across microservices.

Skills

Python

Go

Unix/Linux

SRE Principles

Tools

Kubernetes

AWS

OpenTelemetry

Prometheus

ArgoCD

Job description

Cisco ThousandEyes is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to design and operate large‑scale, highly available distributed systems in the cloud. The role collaborates with application teams to boost reliability, performance, and security of the platform.

You will drive 24x7 incident response, on‑call rotations, and automation across Kubernetes, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, and ArgoCD. Hybrid work with weekly in‑office attendance in SF, Seattle, Austin or New York is offered.