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Base Salary
$187k - $268k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead the architecture, design, and delivery of large-scale backend systems for AI agent observability, distributed tracing, multimodal evaluation, AI metrics, and agent control.
- Drive complex technical initiatives from design through production deployment while coordinating engineers and guiding implementation.
- Design and develop distributed systems, APIs, and data-processing capabilities for telemetry, traces, metrics, and events.
- Write production code in Python and/or Go, lead technical design and code reviews, mentor engineers, and make architectural decisions.
- Collaborate with product managers, AI researchers, and engineering teams across Splunk and Cisco on customer-facing products.
- Participate in a shared production on-call rotation, typically one week approximately every two months.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree with 8+ years of related experience, Master’s degree with 6+ years of related experience, or equivalent practical experience.
- 8+ years of experience developing production backend software applications and services using Python and/or Go.
- Experience leading the technical design and delivery of complex software systems or projects involving multiple engineers.
- Experience designing distributed systems, backend architectures, and APIs for scalable, high-throughput, data-intensive applications.
- Experience making architecture decisions involving scalability, reliability, performance, and maintainability.
- Preferred: experience with customer-facing AI/ML, generative AI, large language model, or agentic applications.
- Preferred: experience with AI observability, evaluation, monitoring, LLM tracing, distributed tracing, or OpenTelemetry.
- Preferred: experience with distributed data processing systems using Kafka, ClickHouse, or similar technologies.
- Preferred: experience developing enterprise observability, analytics, or monitoring products and leading cross-team technical initiatives.
Benefits
- Starting salary range is $186,900.00 to $267,700.00, excluding incentive compensation, equity, and benefits.
- Benefits may include medical, dental and vision insurance, 401(k) matching, paid parental leave, disability coverage, life insurance, paid holidays, vacation or flexible time off, sick time, wellness days, birthday leave, year-end shutdown, and volunteer time.
- Employees may be eligible for Cisco restricted stock units and annual bonuses subject to Cisco policies.
- The role includes a shared on-call rotation, typically approximately one week every two months.
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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.