15 days ago
Base Salary
$223k - $301k/yr
Responsibilities
- Provide senior technical leadership for quality systems across Developer Platforms.
- Design production-grade internal platforms that improve software validation and release confidence.
- Lead architectural change, platform modernization, and large-scale technical migrations across multiple engineering teams.
- Partner with technical leaders across Splunk and Cisco to translate architectural change into practical platform direction.
- Contribute hands-on to platform development while mentoring senior engineers.
- Build durable platforms that are adopted by engineering teams and measurably improve delivery confidence.
Requirements
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience designing, building, and operating production-grade systems or internal platforms.
- 3+ years of experience in developer platforms, quality engineering, test frameworks, CI/CD, build systems, release automation, infrastructure platforms, or developer tooling.
- Experience with automated testing, release pipelines, service architecture, distributed systems, or comparable modern software development practices.
- Experience leading architectural change, platform modernization, or large-scale technical migrations across multiple engineering teams.
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Experience providing technical leadership across teams without direct reporting authority is preferred.
- Experience building platforms for large internal engineering communities or organizations with thousands of developers is preferred.
- Experience with AI-enabled engineering workflows, quality analytics, or emerging developer productivity technologies is preferred.
- Ability to create clarity, communicate complex technical ideas, and align engineers, managers, and cross-functional stakeholders is preferred.
Benefits
- Starting salary range is $241,400.00 to $322,600.00, excluding incentive compensation, equity, and benefits.
- Benefits 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 time off includes holidays, birthday leave, year-end shutdown, wellness days, vacation or flexible vacation, sick time, and family emergency leave.
- Employees may receive up to 10 paid volunteer days per year.
- Non-sales employees may be eligible for annual bonuses subject to Cisco policies.
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.