Cisco Meraki
Senior Site Reliability Engineer , Performance
Cisco Meraki, San Francisco, California, United States, 94199
Overview
Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Performance role at Cisco Meraki. Join to apply for the Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Performance role at Cisco Meraki. The Meraki cloud supports millions of customer devices from data centers and public cloud regions worldwide. Meraki's customer base has grown significantly, serving billions of HTTP requests per day. As SREs at Meraki, we build and grow the cloud that supports our customers and their networks. As a Site Reliability Engineering Technical Leader on the Performance team, you'll lead efforts to ensure speed, reliability, and efficiency of the Meraki cloud. You'll work across engineering teams, applying expertise in systems performance, distributed systems and applied observability to identify and fix performance problems and enable others to do the same. We value quality and customer experience, and our team is based in the US, EMEA and APAC. Responsibilities
Analyze and improve the performance of production systems, including APIs, backend services, storage, databases, and infrastructure components. Design and implement performance monitoring, benchmarking, and profiling strategies across services and platforms. Collaborate with development and SRE teams to troubleshoot performance regressions and scalability bottlenecks. Lead performance-focused chaos testing, capacity planning, and load testing initiatives. Build tools and dashboards to surface latency, throughput, and system utilization metrics across the stack. Participate in design reviews to ensure systems are built with performance and scalability in mind from day one. Drive incident response and root cause analysis for performance-related incidents in production. Mentor other engineers on performance best practices, observability, and system tuning. Ideal candidate
5+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or infrastructure-focused engineering roles with a strong performance focus. Proficient in programming with at least one common language (e.g. Ruby, Python, Go, Rust) and at least one scripting/automation language or tool (e.g. Bash, Ansible). Deep understanding of Linux internals, networking, filesystems, memory management, and containers. Experience with complex, large-scale distributed systems including container orchestration, load balancers, databases, and storage systems. Hands-on experience with monitoring and observability tools (e.g. Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, eBPF, Flamegraphs), and ability to work with other teams to apply them to monitor services. Experience designing and running load tests using Locust, k6, Gatling, or JMeter. Willingness to work on a highly autonomous team that cares deeply about quality and customer experience. Curious, fast learner, and comfortable diving into unfamiliar code and systems to solve problems. Willing to be part of a production on-call rotation. Security/eligibility notice
The successful applicant may perform work in FedRAMP High or IL-5 environments and must be a U.S. Person (U.S. citizen or U.S. national). EEO and compensation
Cisco is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, genetic information, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected basis. Cisco will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records on a case-by-case basis. Compensation Range: $146,700—$214,800 USD Notes
Message to applicants applying to work in the U.S. and/or Canada: When available, the salary range posted reflects the projected hiring range for new hires in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including equity or benefits. For non-sales roles, the range reflects base salary; bonuses may apply. Individual pay is determined by location and factors such as skillset, experience, and education. Recruiters can share more details during the hiring process. U.S. employees have access to medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) with Cisco matching, disability coverage, life insurance, and wellbeing offerings. Paid time off includes holidays, vacation, and sick time; specifics vary by location and policy. Cisco offers additional paid time for volunteering.
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Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Performance role at Cisco Meraki. Join to apply for the Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Performance role at Cisco Meraki. The Meraki cloud supports millions of customer devices from data centers and public cloud regions worldwide. Meraki's customer base has grown significantly, serving billions of HTTP requests per day. As SREs at Meraki, we build and grow the cloud that supports our customers and their networks. As a Site Reliability Engineering Technical Leader on the Performance team, you'll lead efforts to ensure speed, reliability, and efficiency of the Meraki cloud. You'll work across engineering teams, applying expertise in systems performance, distributed systems and applied observability to identify and fix performance problems and enable others to do the same. We value quality and customer experience, and our team is based in the US, EMEA and APAC. Responsibilities
Analyze and improve the performance of production systems, including APIs, backend services, storage, databases, and infrastructure components. Design and implement performance monitoring, benchmarking, and profiling strategies across services and platforms. Collaborate with development and SRE teams to troubleshoot performance regressions and scalability bottlenecks. Lead performance-focused chaos testing, capacity planning, and load testing initiatives. Build tools and dashboards to surface latency, throughput, and system utilization metrics across the stack. Participate in design reviews to ensure systems are built with performance and scalability in mind from day one. Drive incident response and root cause analysis for performance-related incidents in production. Mentor other engineers on performance best practices, observability, and system tuning. Ideal candidate
5+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or infrastructure-focused engineering roles with a strong performance focus. Proficient in programming with at least one common language (e.g. Ruby, Python, Go, Rust) and at least one scripting/automation language or tool (e.g. Bash, Ansible). Deep understanding of Linux internals, networking, filesystems, memory management, and containers. Experience with complex, large-scale distributed systems including container orchestration, load balancers, databases, and storage systems. Hands-on experience with monitoring and observability tools (e.g. Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, eBPF, Flamegraphs), and ability to work with other teams to apply them to monitor services. Experience designing and running load tests using Locust, k6, Gatling, or JMeter. Willingness to work on a highly autonomous team that cares deeply about quality and customer experience. Curious, fast learner, and comfortable diving into unfamiliar code and systems to solve problems. Willing to be part of a production on-call rotation. Security/eligibility notice
The successful applicant may perform work in FedRAMP High or IL-5 environments and must be a U.S. Person (U.S. citizen or U.S. national). EEO and compensation
Cisco is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, genetic information, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected basis. Cisco will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records on a case-by-case basis. Compensation Range: $146,700—$214,800 USD Notes
Message to applicants applying to work in the U.S. and/or Canada: When available, the salary range posted reflects the projected hiring range for new hires in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including equity or benefits. For non-sales roles, the range reflects base salary; bonuses may apply. Individual pay is determined by location and factors such as skillset, experience, and education. Recruiters can share more details during the hiring process. U.S. employees have access to medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) with Cisco matching, disability coverage, life insurance, and wellbeing offerings. Paid time off includes holidays, vacation, and sick time; specifics vary by location and policy. Cisco offers additional paid time for volunteering.
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