4 days ago
Base Salary
$251k - $363k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead technical direction for Kubernetes-based platform architecture.
- Translate product, customer, and feature-team requirements into designs, engineering contracts, and implementation plans.
- Partner across runtime, Kubernetes operator, configuration, application platform, search, security, cloud, product, and customer-facing teams.
- Identify cross-component dependencies, failure modes, lifecycle gaps, and migration risks.
- Drive incremental modernization of a mature enterprise platform while preserving compatibility, reliability, and operational quality.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree plus 15 years, master’s degree plus 12 years, PhD plus 8 years of related experience, or equivalent related work experience.
- 10+ years of professional software engineering experience building backend, platform, infrastructure, or distributed systems.
- 5+ years designing, building, or operating production distributed systems.
- 2+ years of hands-on Kubernetes experience, including workload orchestration, operators/controllers, or cloud-native deployment patterns.
- Preferred experience with production APIs, lifecycle orchestration, configuration systems, upgrade systems, or platform services.
- Preferred experience with Go, C++, Java, or Python in backend or platform development.
- Preferred experience with Kubernetes operators, control planes, developer platforms, infrastructure automation, or large-scale platform services.
- Preferred experience modernizing legacy or monolithic enterprise systems toward cloud-native operating models.
- Preferred experience with enterprise customer commitments, regulated environments, cloud/on-premises deployment variance, and long-lived compatibility expectations.
- Preferred ability to synthesize ambiguous cross-team requirements into technical direction, tradeoffs, and execution plans.
- Preferred experience using AI-assisted engineering tools for code comprehension, review preparation, test planning, incident triage, documentation, or migration analysis.
Benefits
- Starting salary range is $250,600.00 to $362,600.00 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 matching contribution, paid parental leave, disability coverage, and basic life insurance.
- Eligible employees may receive Cisco restricted stock unit grants and annual bonuses for non-sales roles.
- Paid time off includes holidays, floating and wellness days, birthday leave, vacation or flexible vacation, sick time, family emergency leave, and optional volunteer days.
- Additional state-specific salary ranges and time-off policies apply.
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.