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Base Salary
$251k - $363k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and deliver scalable, supportable, maintainable production applications and product capabilities.
- Own architecture, technical strategy, system design, code quality, deployments, and operational support across multiple teams.
- Partner with internal and external teams to gather requirements and document technical specifications and solutions.
- Communicate technical solutions to architecture groups and leadership and participate in design and code reviews.
- Mentor junior and principal-level engineers, set engineering standards, and lead proof-of-concept and benchmarking efforts.
- Troubleshoot complex system-level stability and scalability issues and evaluate new technologies and third-party tools.
- Build agentic systems and leverage AI to improve productivity across the software development lifecycle.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in Engineering or Computer Science with 17+ years of relevant industry experience, or a master’s degree with 10 years of relevant industry experience.
- 7+ years of experience in technical leadership and architecture.
- 10+ years of development experience in AWS cloud or similar environments.
- Proficiency in Python, Go, or Java.
- Deep expertise in distributed systems, cloud-native architecture, APIs, microservices architecture, data platforms, multi-tenant services, and production operations.
- Preferred experience with SSE/SASE, zero-trust architecture, identity-aware access, authorization, secure web access, data protection, DNS security, browser isolation, or digital experience monitoring.
- Preferred experience with LLM applications, retrieval-augmented generation, agent orchestration, tool calling, prompt and context management, model evaluation, LLMOps, AI safety, guardrails, and responsible AI.
- Preferred experience with streaming data, feature engineering, anomaly detection, behavioral or graph analytics, model drift, explainability, feedback loops, and investigation or analyst workflows.
- Preferred experience with high-volume data pipelines and technologies such as Kafka, Kubernetes, and NoSQL.
- Preferred experience with modern frontend frameworks, TypeScript, component or design systems, web performance, accessibility, browser security, API design, and backend-for-frontend architecture.
- Demonstrated ability to work independently, research emerging technologies, lead teams, inspire others, debug complex systems, resolve cross-organization architectural tensions, and communicate with mixed audiences.
Benefits
- Onsite work in Milpitas, California.
- Base salary range of $250,600.00 to $362,600.00, excluding incentive compensation, equity, and benefits.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance; 401(k) with Cisco matching; paid parental leave; short- and long-term disability coverage; and basic life insurance.
- Potential eligibility for Cisco restricted stock unit grants and annual bonuses for non-sales roles.
- Paid holidays, floating holiday, birthday day off, year-end shutdown, personal wellness days, vacation or flexible vacation time, sick time, family emergency leave, and optional paid volunteer days.
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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.