Cisco
Technical Leader, SRE/Go development
$166K–$308K
San Francisco, California, US +4 · Remote · Full-time · Posted Oct 15, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco, California, US
Austin, Texas, US
RTP, North Carolina, US
Chicago, Illinois, US
Seattle, Washington, US - Experience
- 8+ years of professional software, site reliability, or infrastructure engineering experience; 5+ years of programming in Go or a similar systems programming language.
About the job
Lead the migration and ongoing reliability of specialized, globally distributed Kubernetes services while developing production Go software and advancing Kubernetes platform engineering.
What you'll do
- Lead technical planning and phased migration of workloads from AWS-hosted Kubernetes to Cisco’s internal Kubernetes platform.
- Operate and improve production services, including incident response, performance analysis, operational readiness, and long-term corrective actions.
- Develop production-quality Go software and coordinate reliability and platform initiatives across engineering teams.
What they ask for
- 8+ years of professional software, site reliability, or infrastructure engineering experience, including technical leadership of substantial production systems.
- 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, performance analysis, Kubernetes reliability practices, observability, automation, and operational readiness.
Nice to have
- Experience operating Kubernetes across AWS, on-premises, or hybrid environments, using AWS/EKS, Docker, Kustomize, GitLab CI/CD, or similar deployment systems.
- Experience with Kubernetes networking and traffic management, or with network security, observability, routing, packet processing, performance optimization, or failure testing.
Pay
$186,900.00 to $267,700.00 USD base salary; $186,900.00 - $307,800.00 USD base salary; $166,300.00 - $274,100.00 USD base salary
Tools
Go, Kubernetes, AWS/EKS, Docker, Kustomize, GitLab CI/CD, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus
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