2 days ago
Base Salary
$178k - $257k/yr
Responsibilities
- Shape the overarching technical vision and future architecture of Cisco IQ digital services and applications.
- Lead hands-on implementation of next-generation intelligent enterprise and SaaS applications.
- Design application-layer, contract-first, spec-driven architectures connecting business logic, user interfaces, backend systems, and reasoning models.
- Embed autonomous and semi-autonomous agentic capabilities into business-critical workflows.
- Develop production LLM-backed applications with agent orchestration, structured tool calling, and failure handling.
- Design and manage distributed, cloud-agnostic architectures across public and private cloud environments.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
- 12 years of experience in backend software architecture and core software development using Python, Node, Go, or Java.
- Experience building and shipping complex enterprise or SaaS applications.
- Production experience with LLM-backed applications, including LangGraph, custom state-machine runtimes, structured tool calling, and failure handling.
- Experience with contract-first API design and schema modeling using OpenAPI, TypeSpec, GraphQL, or gRPC.
- Preferred: domain expertise in networking protocols, large-scale infrastructure management, and system-level design.
- Preferred: proficiency designing and managing cloud-agnostic distributed architectures across AWS, GCP, and private cloud environments.
- Preferred: exceptional communication and executive presence with the ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders and translate technical vision into business outcomes.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) with Cisco matching contributions, paid parental leave, disability coverage, and basic life insurance for eligible U.S. employees.
- Eligible employees may receive Cisco restricted stock unit grants.
- Paid holidays, floating holiday, birthday day off, year-end shutdown, wellness days, vacation or flexible time off, and sick time off subject to applicable policies.
- Optional paid volunteer time and additional paid time away for critical family or emergency issues.
- Non-sales employees may be eligible for annual bonuses subject to Cisco policies.
- The posted starting salary range is $177,600.00 to $257,400.00 for U.S. and/or Canada locations, excluding incentive compensation, equity, and benefits.
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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.