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About the Role

The Database Reliability Engineering team builds and operates production database and data systems for Cisco Meraki's cloud platform. This role focuses on making high-volume data ingestion, customer data access, and operational data needs reliable at a global scale, impacting engineers and customers.

Responsibilities

• Plan, administer, maintain, and secure PostgreSQL infrastructure in collaboration with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) teams.
• Design, build, and maintain ETL pipelines for PostgreSQL, and develop procedures and scripts for data migration.
• Perform operational database administration tasks including installation, upgrades, patching, backup/recovery, monitoring, capacity planning, and architectural changes in cloud environments.
• Participate in production operations such as on-call rotation, incident response, monitoring, alerting, and post-incident review processes.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience designing, operating, and troubleshooting PostgreSQL in production environments.
• 5+ years of experience managing production database or distributed data systems across application, database, operating system, storage, and network layers.
• 3+ years of experience in Linux systems engineering (performance tuning, memory management, I/O tuning, configuration, security, and networking).
• 3+ years of experience automating infrastructure or database operations with tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Chef, or Puppet.
• 2+ years of experience using at least one scripting or programming language such as Python, Bash, Go, Ruby, or Perl for automation and operational tooling.
• Experience working in a polyglot production data environment, including at least one non-PostgreSQL system such as Kafka/MSK, ClickHouse, Redis, MySQL, Cassandra, Elasticsearch, or a similar distributed data system.
• Experience building database platform tooling, self-service workflows, and paved paths that enable application teams to use data systems safely and efficiently.
• Previous work with cloud infrastructure and managed data services, including PostgreSQL on Kubernetes, Amazon RDS, AWS, Terraform, service discovery, and secrets management.
• Ability to operate MSK/Kafka, ClickHouse, or Redis at scale, covering cluster operations, replication, partitioning or sharding, retention, capacity planning, and workload tuning.
• Previous responsibility for refining reliability practices for production data systems, such as SLOs, disaster recovery plans, backup validation, and failover testing.
• Deep knowledge of PostgreSQL internals and operational behavior, including concurrency, transaction consistency, replication, maintenance, backup and recovery, indexing, and query performance.
• Ability to communicate effectively in writing and verbally by producing design documents, leading operational reviews, explaining tradeoffs, and mentoring engineers.

Skills

• PostgreSQL
• ETL pipelines
• Data migration
• Linux systems engineering
• Terraform
• Ansible
• Chef
• Puppet
• Python
• Bash
• Go
• Ruby
• Perl
• Kafka/MSK
• ClickHouse
• Redis
• MySQL
• Cassandra
• Elasticsearch
• Kubernetes
• Amazon RDS
• AWS
• Service discovery
• Secrets management
• SLOs
• Disaster recovery
• Backup validation
• Failover testing

Location

• U.S.
• Canada

Work Type

• Full-time

Experience Level

• Senior

Salary/Compensations

• $165,000.00 - $241,400.00 (U.S. and/or Canada)
• $165,000.00 - $277,600.00 (New York City Metro Area)
• $146,700.00 - $247,000.00 (Non-Metro New York state & Washington state)

Benefits

• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• 401(k) plan with Cisco matching contribution
• Paid parental leave
• Short-term disability coverage
• Long-term disability coverage
• Basic life insurance
• 10 paid holidays per full calendar year
• 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees
• 1 paid day off for employee’s birthday
• Paid year-end holiday shutdown
• 4 paid days off for personal wellness
• 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year (non-exempt employees)
• Flexible vacation time off program (exempt employees)
• 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter
• Up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward
• Additional paid time away for critical or emergency family issues
• Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer
• Annual bonuses (non-sales roles)
• Performance-based incentive pay (sales roles)
• Cisco restricted stock units

About the Company

• At Cisco, we’re revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era – and beyond.
• We’ve been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds.
• Our solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint.
• Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions.
• We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale.
• Our solutions are everywhere, so our impact is everywhere.
• We are Cisco, and our power starts with you.