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Base Salary
$296k - $375k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define and drive the multi-year technical roadmap for data services and platform capabilities.
- Provide architectural guidance, influence engineering strategy, and represent the organization in technical reviews.
- Design and build highly available, scalable, and resilient data systems for batch and real-time event-driven workflows.
- Establish reusable primitives and architectural patterns for data ingestion, processing, storage, and delivery.
- Define standards for trusted, discoverable, high-quality data products, schemas, lineage, and contracts.
- Partner with product, security, infrastructure, and AI/ML stakeholders to translate requirements into durable solutions.
- Resolve complex scaling challenges and mentor senior engineering staff across multiple teams.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- 15+ years of experience designing and delivering large-scale distributed systems or data platforms.
- Experience with data services, cloud platforms, distributed storage, data processing, and service-oriented architectures.
- Programming experience in one or more of Java, Go, Python, or C++.
- Preferred: experience building and scaling multi-tenant SaaS or enterprise data platforms from early-stage design through global production.
- Preferred: proficiency with Kubernetes, Kafka, Flink, Spark, object storage, lakehouse architectures, and distributed SQL engines.
- Preferred: experience supporting AI/ML workloads, including feature stores, vector or unstructured data, model evaluation, and generative AI systems.
- Preferred: practical experience with data governance, quality, lineage, cataloging, security, privacy, and regulatory compliance.
- Preferred: evidence of industry influence through open-source contributions, technical publications, patents, or established industry standards.
Benefits
- Starting salary range is $296,300.00 to $374,800.00 for U.S. and/or Canada locations, excluding incentive compensation, equity, and benefits.
- Benefits may include medical, dental and vision insurance, 401(k) matching, paid parental leave, disability coverage, basic life insurance, and potential Cisco restricted stock unit grants.
- Paid time off may include holidays, birthday leave, year-end shutdown, wellness days, vacation or flexible vacation, sick time, family emergency leave, and volunteer days, subject to eligibility and Cisco policies.
- 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.