3 days ago
Base Salary
$149k - $282k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define and drive the long-term technical strategy for high-throughput ingestion pipelines.
- Design, implement, deploy, and scale mission-critical distributed systems and high-volume data processing pipelines.
- Improve the performance, elasticity, scalability, and reliability of the Splunk platform.
- Partner with product and platform leadership to align complex engineering initiatives with business requirements.
- Establish standards for system design, code quality, and operational excellence.
- Lead complex, multi-year engineering roadmaps from conception through production.
- Mentor senior engineers and foster technical excellence across the engineering organization.
- Communicate architectural concepts and trade-offs to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Requirements
- Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field.
- 7+ years of professional experience in backend software development focused on large-scale distributed systems.
- Expert-level proficiency in Go or Java with deep practical knowledge of concurrency models and memory management.
- Experience architecting, deploying, and scaling high-volume data processing pipelines.
- Experience with cloud-native infrastructure, Kubernetes, microservices architecture, and distributed storage systems.
- Ability to influence technical strategy and align stakeholders across multiple teams and organizational levels.
- Demonstrated success leading complex, multi-year engineering roadmaps.
- Strong track record of mentoring senior engineers.
- Advanced ability to communicate complex architectural concepts and trade-offs.
- Passion for innovation and maintaining expertise in distributed systems and data platform technologies.
Benefits
- Hybrid/remote work environment.
- Starting salary range is $149,100.00 to $218,100.00 for U.S. and/or Canada locations, excluding incentive compensation, equity, and benefits.
- Benefits may include medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with Cisco matching contributions, paid parental leave, disability coverage, and basic life insurance.
- Employees may be eligible for Cisco restricted stock unit grants.
- Paid holidays, floating holidays, birthday leave, year-end shutdown, personal wellness days, vacation, sick time, and additional family emergency leave are available subject to eligibility and company policy.
- Employees may receive up to 10 paid volunteer days per year.
- Non-sales employees may be eligible for annual bonuses subject to Cisco policies.
Tech Stack
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.