Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Observability

Cisco

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Work type
Hybrid
Location
San Francisco, CANashville, TNBoise, ID
Salary
$167,700–$245,200 / yr
Employment
Full-time
Posted
15 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live today
Closes
Nov 12, 2026

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Above market

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Cisco Systems is the world''s leading networking technology company, designing and manufacturing networking hardware, telecommunications equipment, and cybersecurity solutions for businesses and governments. Industry: Networking Technology & Cybersecurity

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TL;DR · Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Observability

The Senior Site Reliability Engineer – Observability joins the Observability team within Cloud Network Platform Engineering’s Site Reliability Engineering organization. This role involves designing, building, and operating enterprise observability platforms for logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting across large-scale cloud infrastructure. You will build and maintain Splunk Enterprise, Splunk Cloud, and Elasticsearch clusters while deploying distributed tracing platforms using Grafana Tempo and OpenTelemetry. Key responsibilities include developing telemetry pipelines, defining instrumentation standards, and automating infrastructure provisioning using Terraform and configuration management tools. You will utilize Splunk SPL, Grafana, Kibana, Kafka, and Kubernetes to improve visibility and reduce incident detection times. The work focuses on production services, specifically Kubernetes-based platform workloads like Nextunnel, to strengthen operational excellence and reliability across the cloud environment through proactive monitoring and incident response.

What does a Site Reliability Engineer earn in California?

Median $202800 from 62 postings across 16 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Design, deploy, and operate enterprise observability platforms for logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting.
  • Build and maintain Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Cloud infrastructure, including indexers and search head clusters.
  • Deploy and manage large-scale Elasticsearch clusters for log analytics and operational troubleshooting.
  • Design and support distributed tracing platforms using Grafana Tempo and OpenTelemetry.
  • Develop dashboards, alerts, and visualizations using Splunk SPL, Grafana, Kibana, and Tempo.
  • Automate infrastructure provisioning and operational processes using Terraform and configuration management tools.
  • Troubleshoot complex distributed-systems issues and lead incident response and root-cause analysis.
  • Participate in a shared SRE pager and on-call rotation for production services.

What we're looking for

  • Must have 7+ years of experience in SRE, Platform Engineering, DevOps, or a related field.
  • Must have a Master's degree plus 4 years of experience, or a PhD plus 1 year of experience in a related field.
  • Must have experience administering Splunk Enterprise or Splunk Cloud in a production environment using Splunk SPL.
  • Must have experience designing and operating Elasticsearch, Prometheus, Grafana, Kafka, and distributed tracing platforms like Grafana Tempo or OpenTelemetry.
  • Must have experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and knowledge of Linux, networking, and distributed systems.
  • Must have programming or scripting experience in Python, Go, Ruby, or Bash to troubleshoot production incidents.
  • Must be a U.S. Person (U.S. citizen or U.S. national) to perform work in FedRAMP High or IL-5 environments.
  • Splunk certification (preferred).

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