Staff Site Reliability Engineer

Cisco

Confirmed live yesterday High trust
Closes in 4 days Hybrid

Quick summary

Work type
Hybrid
Location
San Francisco, CASan Jose, CANew York, NY
Salary
$186,900–$267,700 / yr
Employment
Full-time
Posted
2 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live yesterday
Closes
Nov 2, 2026 (soon)

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Salary context

Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

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TL;DR · Staff Site Reliability Engineer

JOB TITLE: Staff Site Reliability Engineer (Hybrid) The Staff Site Reliability Engineer joins the Splunk Agent Resilience team to provide technical leadership for the reliability, scalability, and operational architecture of the Splunk Agent Observability platform. This role involves defining long-term reliability strategies, leading major infrastructure initiatives, and driving engineering excellence across deployment automation and production operations. You will build internal platforms, frameworks, and tooling to support large-scale cloud and air-gapped customer environments. Key responsibilities include establishing service level objectives, managing capacity planning, and leading incident response. Required technical skills include experience with Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, Python, Go, and Infrastructure as Code using Terraform. You will solve complex problems regarding platform resiliency, networking, and distributed systems to ensure AI agents behave as intended with enhanced observability and control.

What does a Site Reliability Engineer earn in California?

Median $202800 from 64 postings across 17 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Define and drive the technical roadmap for platform reliability, scalability, and operational excellence.
  • Lead the architecture and evolution of deployment platforms for cloud and air-gapped environments.
  • Establish reliability engineering standards including SLOs, capacity planning, and resiliency reviews.
  • Lead major reliability initiatives across Kubernetes, databases, networking, and deployment infrastructure.
  • Drive automation to eliminate operational toil and improve engineering productivity.
  • Design and build internal platforms, frameworks, and tooling for reliable operations at scale.
  • Lead complex production incident response and drive systemic improvements through root cause analysis.
  • Mentor engineers through technical leadership, design reviews, and operational guidelines.

What we're looking for

  • Must have 8+ years of experience with a Bachelor's degree, 6+ years with a Master's, or 3+ years with a PhD, or equivalent experience.
  • Must have at least 6 years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Platform/Cloud/Infrastructure Engineering, or related fields.
  • Must have 5+ years of experience operating large-scale Kubernetes platforms in production.
  • Must have experience designing highly available, scalable, and resilient distributed systems.
  • Must have experience with AWS, GCP, or other public cloud platforms.
  • Must have strong experience designing CI/CD platforms and deployment automation at scale.
  • Expertise in observability, monitoring, alerting, capacity planning, and performance engineering (preferred).
  • Strong programming skills in Python and/or Go, deep experience with Infrastructure as Code, and MLOps experience (preferred).

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