13 days ago
Base Salary
$187k - $268k/yr
Responsibilities
- Architect, build, and optimize cloud-native backend services and data platforms for high-throughput ingestion, real-time analytics, and AI/ML consumption.
- Design batch and streaming ETL/ELT pipelines, event-driven data flows, Change Data Capture, and lakehouse architectures.
- Establish standards for data modeling, semantic layers, schema governance, distributed tracing, telemetry, alerting, data quality, and reliability.
- Define REST and GraphQL API contracts and backend microservices that expose trusted datasets and metrics.
- Drive CI/CD automation, code reviews, design reviews, technical governance, and cross-team execution.
- Mentor senior and mid-level data engineers and align architecture and engineering roadmaps with business priorities.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree with 8+ years of related experience, or a master’s degree with 6+ years of related experience.
- Experience using Python and SQL for data engineering, automation, and transformation.
- Backend development experience with Go, Java, Node.js, Rust, or comparable technologies.
- Experience designing REST or GraphQL APIs and working with PostgreSQL, MySQL, and/or NoSQL databases.
- Experience implementing distributed messaging and streaming systems such as Apache Kafka or AWS SQS/SNS.
- Experience building and optimizing platforms with Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery, AWS Redshift, or similar technologies.
- Experience building, maintaining, and troubleshooting automated CI/CD pipelines and containerized deployments.
- Preferred experience includes large-scale ingestion, Change Data Capture, multi-source ETL/ELT, semantic models, feature stores, data observability, lineage, monitoring frameworks, AI-assisted development tools, AIOps, technical mentorship, and architectural consensus-building.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement requiring onsite work Tuesday through Thursday.
- Starting salary range of $186,900 to $267,700 for U.S. and/or Canada locations, excluding incentive compensation, equity, and benefits.
- Medical, dental, vision, 401(k) with Cisco matching contribution, paid parental leave, disability coverage, and basic life insurance for eligible U.S. employees.
- Potential eligibility for Cisco restricted stock units and annual bonuses for non-sales roles.
- Paid holidays, floating holiday, birthday leave, year-end shutdown, wellness days, vacation or flexible vacation, sick time, family emergency leave, and optional paid volunteer days.
Tech Stack
Amazon RedshiftApache KafkaDatabricksDatadogGitHub ActionsGoGoogle BigQueryGraphQLJavaJenkinsMySQLNode.jsPostgreSQLPrometheusPythonRustSnowflakeSQL
Categories
BackendData Engineering
About Cisco
Cisco designs and sells networking, security, and collaboration platforms for enterprises, service providers, and governments, spanning routers and switches, Wi‑Fi, firewalls, zero‑trust, observability, and cloud-managed IT (Meraki) plus Webex. Its business model mixes hardware, software subscriptions, and support/consulting services. Founded in 1984 and headquartered in San Jose, California, Cisco is a public company traded on Nasdaq and serves customers across data centers, campuses, and service provider networks.