Staff Site Reliability Engineer

Cisco

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Closes in 3 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
3 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live today
Closes
Sep 30, 2026 (soon)

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Salary context

Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $186k
This role $227k
$132k most similar roles pay here $282k

This role pays more than 84% of similar roles. Most pay $155,000–$217,500 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $227k versus about $186k for comparable roles.

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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

Cisco currently has 193 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Staff Site Reliability Engineer

As a Staff Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) on the Splunk Agent Resilience team, you will provide technical leadership for the reliability, scalability, and operational architecture of the Splunk Agent Observability platform. You will define long-term reliability strategies, lead major infrastructure initiatives, and drive engineering excellence across deployment automation, production operations, and platform resiliency. Your daily work involves managing complex production systems, establishing service level objectives, performing capacity planning, and designing internal tools to eliminate operational toil. The role requires expertise in Kubernetes, distributed systems, networking, and cloud architecture across AWS and GCP environments. You will utilize Python or Go and Infrastructure as Code via Terraform to build scalable deployment architectures for both cloud and air-gapped customer environments. This position focuses on ensuring AI agents behave as intended by providing robust evaluation and guardrails within the product area.

What does a Site Reliability Engineer earn in California?

Median $214000 from 61 postings across 15 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.
  • Drive automation to eliminate operational toil and improve engineering productivity across infrastructure.
  • Design and build internal tools and frameworks to enable reliable operations at scale.
  • Lead complex production incident responses and perform root cause analysis for systemic improvements.
  • Mentor engineers and provide technical leadership through design reviews and operational guidelines.
  • Collaborate with customers to build secure, scalable deployment architectures for cloud and on-premise systems.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor's degree with 8+ years of experience, Master's with 6+ years, or PhD with 3+ years of equivalent related experience.
  • At least 6 years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Platform/Cloud/Infrastructure Engineering, or related fields.
  • 5+ years of experience operating large-scale Kubernetes platforms in production.
  • Experience designing highly available, scalable, and resilient distributed systems.
  • Experience with AWS, GCP, or other public cloud platforms.
  • 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 like Terraform; MLOps experience (preferred).

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