Cisco
Senior Site Reliability Engineer – Observability
$149K–$282K
San Francisco, California, US +2 · Hybrid · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 12, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco, California, US
Nashville, Tennessee, US
Boise, Idaho, US - Experience
- 7+ years of related experience, or Master + 4 years, or PhD + 1 year.
- Visa sponsorship
- Must be a U.S. Person (U.S. citizen or U.S. national); work must be performed from within the United States.
About the job
Designs, operates, and improves observability platforms and telemetry pipelines for Cisco’s large-scale cloud infrastructure, while supporting production reliability and incident response.
What you'll do
- Build and operate platforms for logs, metrics, tracing, and alerting, including Splunk, Elasticsearch, and distributed tracing systems.
- Improve monitoring, dashboards, alerts, instrumentation, and telemetry pipelines; automate infrastructure and operational processes.
- Participate in production support, incident response, root-cause analysis, and the shared SRE on-call rotation.
What they ask for
- Production administration experience with Splunk Enterprise or Splunk Cloud and knowledge of Splunk SPL.
- Experience operating Elasticsearch or ELK platforms, Prometheus, Grafana, distributed tracing, and Kafka.
- Infrastructure-as-Code experience with Terraform; knowledge of Linux, networking, distributed systems, and production operations.
- Programming or scripting experience in Python, Go, Ruby, Bash, or similar; troubleshooting and on-call experience.
Nice to have
- Splunk certification; Kubernetes and containerized production workloads.
- Experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP; Ansible, Consul, CI/CD, or service mesh technologies.
Pay
$167,700.00 to $245,200.00 USD base salary; $167,700.00 - $282,000.00 USD base salary; $149,100.00 - $250,900.00 USD base salary
Tools
Splunk Enterprise, Splunk Cloud, Elasticsearch, Prometheus, Grafana, Grafana Tempo, OpenTelemetry, Terraform
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