Senior SRE Lead - Go & Kubernetes Platform

Cisco Systems, Inc; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 166,000 - 274,000; Full time

Job summary

Cisco Systems, Inc. is seeking an experienced engineer to lead the migration of workloads to an internal Kubernetes platform and to maintain production-grade Go software for distributed systems.

You will design, deploy, and operate large Kubernetes-backed services, collaborate across multiple teams, and ensure reliability through incident response and observability. The role emphasizes planning migrations, building scalable Go components, and maintaining high availability across distributed

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software, site reliability, or infrastructure engineering experience.
• Experience designing, deploying, and operating large distributed services on Kubernetes.
• 5+ years of programming experience in Go or a similar systems programming language.
• Experience supporting production services through incident response, solving, performance analysis, Kubernetes reliability practices, observability, automation, and operational readiness.
• Understanding of Linux and networking concepts, including IPv4/IPv6, TCP, routing, DNS, and TLS; ability to align stakeholders across teams without relying on formal authority.

Responsibilities

• Lead the feasibility assessment, technical planning, and phased migration of eligible workloads from AWS-hosted Kubernetes clusters to the internal Kubernetes platform, establishing technical direction and staged delivery plans.
• Support the operation and reliability of specialized Kubernetes workloads with non-standard load-balancing, networking, and traffic requirements. Continue supporting the application after migration, including production readiness, incident response, performance and operational improvements.
• Solve complex issues across applications, Kubernetes, Linux, networking, containers, and infrastructure; improve the scalability, reliability, security, performance, and operability of Kubernetes-hosted services.
• Partner with the Node Connectivity, firmware, cloud infrastructure, security, SRE, and product teams to prioritize support and coordinate cross-system changes; contribute to broader Kubernetes SRE and platform reliability initiatives as priorities evolve.
• Design, implement and maintain production-quality Go software for distributed, concurrent, and networked systems; Drive operational readiness through SLIs/SLOs, comprehensive testing, on-call support, root-cause analysis, and long-term corrective actions.

Skills

8+ years experience

Kubernetes design

Go programming

Incident response

Linux networking

Tools

AWS/EKS

Docker

Kustomize

GitLab CI/CD

Job description

Cisco Systems, Inc. is seeking an experienced engineer to lead the migration of workloads to an internal Kubernetes platform and to maintain production-grade Go software for distributed systems.

You will design, deploy, and operate large Kubernetes-backed services, collaborate across multiple teams, and ensure reliability through incident response and observability. The role emphasizes planning migrations, building scalable Go components, and maintaining high availability across distributed