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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Senior Database Engineer (DBRE) - **Company:** Cisco Systems, Inc. - **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $165,000.0 - $241,400.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Query Performance, Amazon Web Services, Bash Shell, Cloud Computing, Databases, Data as a Services, Extract Transform Load (ETL), Data Migration, Data Security, Data Systems, Relational Databases, Shard (Database Architecture), Software Design Documents, Linux, Distributed Data Store, Memory Management, Elasticsearch, Perl (Programming Language), Python (Programming Language), Network Layer, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Operational Data Store, Operational Databases, Performance Tuning, Redis, Reliability Engineering, Ansible, Ruby, Service Discovery, Scripting, Cloud Platform System, System Availability, Concurrency, Indexer, Amazon Relational Database Service, Core Data, Kubernetes, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Low Latency, Cassandra, Apache Kafka, Vertica, Puppet, Terraform, Stream Processing, Golang, Programming Languages - **Published:** July 3, 2026 - **Apply:** https://dejobs.org/x/x/EF30785564C5469ABF25DE1528D5A5CD/job/ ## About the Role * 5+ years of experience designing,operating, and troubleshooting PostgreSQL in production environments. * 5+ years of experience managing production database or distributed data systems acrossapplication,database, operatingsystem, storage, and network layers. * 3+ years of experience in Linux systems engineering (performance tuning, memory management, I/O tuning, configuration, security, and networking) and 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 databaseplatformtooling, self-service workflows, and paved paths that enable application teams to use data systems safely and efficiently. * Previouswork with cloud infrastructure and managed data services, including PostgreSQL on Kubernetes, Amazon RDS, AWS, Terraform, service discovery, andsecretsmanagement. * Ability to operate MSK/Kafka,ClickHouse, or Redis at scale, covering cluster operations, replication, partitioning or sharding, retention, capacity planning, and workload tuning. * Previousresponsibility 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. ## Description The Database Reliability Engineering team builds and operates the production database and data systems that power Cisco Meraki's cloud platform and Dashboard. We make high-volume device telemetry ingestion, customer-facing data access, product workflows, analytics, monitoring, and operational data needs reliable at global scale, so engineers and customers can depend on the data behind Meraki's products. Our work sits at the intersection of database engineering, reliability engineering, and platform operations, with a focus on high availability, business continuity, performance, scalability, observability, and safe change management. We are a small, experienced team with a high-ownership, pragmatic, and collaborative culture; we work closely with SRE and product engineering teams while owning critical systems end to end. This is an opportunity to work on core data reliability problems where improvements in automation, resilience, and operability have an immediate impact across Meraki. Your Impact As a Senior Database Reliability Engineer, you will help make Meraki's database and data systems reliable, scalable, secure, and operable. You will combine database engineering, reliability engineering, and platform automation to support relational databases, streaming systems, analytical stores, and low-latency data services. You will work closely with SRE, application engineering, security, and infrastructure teams to improve the availability and performance of our data systems, reduce operational toil, and guide safe architectural changes as the platform grows. 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