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The Technical Leader, SRE/Go development joins the Kubernetes Site Reliability Engineering team within the Cloud Network Platform Engineering organization. This role focuses on the Node Connectivity team, which manages a globally distributed service connecting millions of Meraki devices to cloud services. You will lead the feasibility assessment, technical planning, and phased migration of workloads from AWS-hosted Kubernetes clusters to an internal, data-center-based Kubernetes platform. Key responsibilities include supporting specialized networking requirements like unique traffic patterns and load-balancing, while maintaining production reliability through incident response and performance improvements. You will design and maintain production-quality Go software for distributed systems using tools like Docker, Kustomize, GitLab CI/CD, and OpenTelemetry. Core competencies include Linux networking, TCP, DNS, TLS, and managing high-throughput, geographically distributed services.
Lead the feasibility assessment, technical planning, and phased migration of workloads from AWS to an internal Kubernetes platform.
Support the operation and reliability of specialized Kubernetes workloads with non-standard networking and load-balancing requirements.
Manage production readiness, incident response, and performance improvements for the application after migration.
Solve complex technical issues across applications, Kubernetes, Linux, networking, containers, and infrastructure.
Design, implement, and maintain production-quality Go software for distributed, concurrent, and networked systems.
Drive operational readiness through SLIs/SLOs, comprehensive testing, on-call support, and root-cause analysis.
Coordinate cross-system changes and prioritize support with firmware, cloud infrastructure, security, and product teams.
What we're looking 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.
Understanding of Linux and networking concepts, including IPv4/IPv6, TCP, routing, DNS, and TLS.
Experience operating Kubernetes across AWS, on-premises, or hybrid environments using AWS/EKS, Docker, Kustomize, or GitLab CI/CD (preferred).
Experience with Kubernetes networking, ingress, load balancing, service discovery, and traffic management for high-throughput or geographically distributed services (preferred).
Experience with gRPC, Protocol Buffers, mutual TLS, PKI, VPNs, tunneling, or network security (preferred).