# Observability Engineer

**Company**: Cisco
**Location**: Milpitas, California
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $256,900.00 - $333,400.00
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

The Platform and Security team within Cisco’s AI Software and Platform Group designs and operates the infrastructure that powers Cisco’s AI-powered offerings. As an Observability Engineer, you will define the observability platform vision and execute it end-to-end by partnering with software teams to instrument services correctly and consistently.

You will deliver 100% coverage of distributed tracing in collaboration with development teams, ensuring tracing is implemented optimally with the right balance rather than tracing “everything.” You will own and evolve OpenTelemetry enablement,including libraries, process documents, and design patterns that accelerate adoption in Go and Python applications.

You will drive observability best practices across logging standards and cardinality management, then operate the platform components (Splunk Platform/Splunk Observability, OTEL collectors, and telemetry pipelines) to keep them dependable at scale. You will advance an agentic observability outcome so agents can analyze observability health signals and deliver distilled, actionable information more rapidly than conventional monitoring.

The successful candidate will have a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering (or related field) + 12 years working in a platform services or DevOps role, with specific ownership of observability, or Masters + 8 years of related experience, or PHD + 5 years of related experience. They will also have 2+ years of experience in Splunk Cloud and Splunk Observability (or SignalFx).

In terms of benefits, Cisco offers medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, paid parental leave, short and long-term disability coverage, and basic life insurance. Employees are also eligible for paid time away, including 10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees, 1 paid day off for employee’s birthday, paid year-end holiday shutdown, and 4 paid days off for personal wellness.

The starting salary range for this position is $256,900.00 to $333,400.00, reflecting the projected salary range for new hires in this position in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including incentive compensation, equity, or benefits.

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- Go
- OpenTelemetry
- Splunk Cloud
- Splunk Observability
- SignalFx
- Kubernetes
- Terraform
- Helm charts
- GitHub workflows
- distributed tracing
- observability

### Nice to have
- large-scale distributed tracing initiatives
- AI agents
- LLM observability
- AWS services

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