Site Reliability Engineer, Datastores

1 Month ago • All levels

Job Summary

Job Description

The Datastores team at Cisco ThousandEyes focuses on mission-critical datastores, including MySQL, ElasticSearch, and Kafka. As a Site Reliability Engineer, you will be responsible for the availability, performance, change management, and capacity planning of these datastores. This role involves maintaining a large and high-volume data infrastructure, collaborating with software engineers, and participating in 24/7 incident response.
Must have:
  • Strong Infrastructure as Code skills with Terraform and Kubernetes.
  • Ability to write high quality code in Python, Go, or equivalent languages.
Good to have:
  • Ability to design and implement scalable solutions with datastores (MySQL/PostgreSQL, ElasticSearch/OpenSearch, Kafka, DynamoDB, S3)
  • Good knowledge of cloud provider managed services (AWS).
  • Strong communication and documentation skills.

Job Details

Who We Are

Cisco ThousandEyes is a Digital Experience Assurance platform that empowers organizations to deliver flawless digital experiences across every network – even the ones they don’t own. Powered by AI and an unmatched set of cloud, internet and enterprise network telemetry data, ThousandEyes enables IT teams to proactively detect, diagnose, and remediate issues – before they impact end- user experiences.

ThousandEyes is deeply integrated across the entire Cisco technology portfolio and beyond, helping customers deploy at scale while also delivering AI-powered assurance insights within Cisco’s leading Networking, Security, Collaboration, and Observability portfolios.

About The Role

The Datastores team is focused on our platform’s mission critical datastores (think MySQL, ElasticSearch and Kafka). The team is responsible for all aspects of our platform’s datastores, such as availability, performance, change management, capacity planning, monitoring and emergency response. As a Site Reliability Engineer on the team, you will focus on helping the team handle the company’s core datastore services, maintaining a constantly growing infrastructure capable of handling a very high volume of incoming data per day. 

We’re looking for talented engineers with a software or operations background, experienced in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale high available datastores systems. You must be willing to work closely with our application development teams to ensure the reliability and performance of our infrastructure.

What You'll Do

  • Design, implement and maintain elastic and resilient datastores that support our platform at a multi-region scale.
  • Collaborate and work closely with the software engineers to ensure that the ThousandEyes platform datastores infrastructure and services are designed and optimized for availability, latency, and performance.
  • Participate in and contribute to improve our 24x7 incident response and on-call rotation.

Qualifications

Minimum:

  • Strong Infrastructure as Code skills, ideally with Terraform and Kubernetes.
  • Ability to write high quality code in Python, Go, or equivalent languages.

Preferred:

  • Ability to design and implement scalable and well tested solutions, with focus on datastores (amongst MySQL/PostgreSQL, ElasticSearch/OpenSearch, Kafka, DynamoDB, S3)
  • Good knowledge of cloud provider managed services (ideally AWS), and how they can be leveraged in our context.
  • Strong communication and documentation skills.

Cisco values the perspectives and skills that emerge from employees with diverse backgrounds. That's why Cisco is expanding the boundaries of discovering top talent by not only focusing on candidates with educational degrees and experience but also placing more emphasis on unlocking potential. We believe that everyone has something to offer and that diverse teams are better equipped to solve problems, innovate, and create a positive impact.

We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification. Not all strong candidates will meet every single qualification. Research shows that people from underrepresented groups are more prone to experiencing imposter syndrome and doubting the strength of their candidacy. We urge you not to prematurely exclude yourself and to apply if you're interested in this work.

Cisco is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer and 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 for employment, on a case by case basis, qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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About The Company

The name ThousandEyes was born from two big ideas: the power to see things not ordinarily possible and the ability to collect insights from a multitude of vantage points. As organizations rely more on cloud services and the Internet, the network has become a black box they can't understand. ThousandEyes gives organizations visibility into the now borderless network, arming them with an accurate understanding of how the network impacts their applications, users and customers. ThousandEyes is used by some of the world's largest and fastest growing brands, including all of the top 5 global software companies, 5 of the top 6 US banks, and 45 of the Fortune 500.

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