Cisco
AI Observability Engineering Technical Leader
$234K–$384K
Milpitas, California, US · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted Oct 27, 2026
- Experience
- 12 years with a Bachelor’s degree; 8 years with a Master’s; or 5 years with a PhD. Also requires 2+ years with Splunk Cloud and Splunk Observability (or SignalFx).
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field; or Master’s; or PhD.
About the job
Leads the observability platform strategy and operations for Cisco AI services, improving telemetry coverage and enabling agents to deliver actionable health insights.
What you'll do
- Define and execute the observability platform vision, partnering with software teams on consistent service instrumentation and distributed tracing.
- Build and maintain OpenTelemetry enablement for Go and Python, and operate observability platforms and telemetry pipelines.
- Establish logging and cardinality practices and advance agent-driven analysis of observability health signals.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field plus 12 years of platform services or DevOps experience with observability ownership; or Master’s plus 8 years of related experience; or PhD plus 5 years of related experience.
- 2+ years using Splunk Cloud for logging and Splunk Observability (or SignalFx) for metrics and traces.
- Experience with distributed tracing concepts, instrumentation, and managing scope and overhead.
- Experience coding in Python and/or Go, and with Kubernetes, OpenTelemetry collectors, infrastructure-as-code such as Terraform, Helm charts, and modern SDLC practices such as GitHub workflows.
Nice to have
- Experience leading distributed tracing initiatives across 100+ microservices; experience using AI agents to improve observability outcomes.
- Understanding of LLM observability and major providers; deep understanding of AWS services used in telemetry pipelines and distributed architectures.
Pay
$256,900.00 to $333,400.00 USD base salary; $256,900.00 - $383,500.00 USD base salary; $234,400.00 - $341,100.00 USD base salary
Tools
Splunk Cloud, Splunk Observability, SignalFx, Python, Go, Kubernetes, OpenTelemetry (OTEL), Terraform
AI focus
Advance agentic observability so agents analyze health signals and provide distilled, actionable information; preferred experience includes agents that detect issues, improve routing or alerts, and recommend instrumentation changes, as well as LLM observability.
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