AI Observability Engineering Technical Leader
Core
Define and execute the observability platform vision for Cisco's AI software offerings, ensuring 100% distributed tracing coverage and enabling agentic observability outcomes.
Role type
Senior IC Platform Engineering Leader (Observability)
Builds
Distributed tracing infrastructure, OpenTelemetry enablement libraries, and telemetry pipelines for AI services.
Domain
Cloud Infrastructure & AI Observability
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Distributed tracing, OpenTelemetry, Python, Go, Kubernetes, Terraform, Splunk Cloud, Splunk Observability, Infrastructure-as-code, Helm charts, SDLC practices
Preferred skills
Large-scale distributed tracing leadership, AI agents for observability, LLM observability patterns, AWS telemetry services
Responsibilities
Define observability platform vision, partner with software teams to instrument services, own OpenTelemetry enablement, drive logging standards and cardinality management, operate platform components at scale, advance agentic observability outcomes
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with strategic ownership
