1 month ago
Base Salary
$251k - $363k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build new capabilities and improve existing processes and architecture for Cisco Secure Access products.
- Design, develop, and deliver scalable, supportable, maintainable, production-quality applications.
- Own architecture, design, code quality, deployments, and technical solutions across multiple teams.
- Partner with internal and external teams to define business and technical requirements and document specifications.
- Participate in design and code reviews, mentor junior developers, and evaluate technologies through proof of concepts and benchmarks.
- Troubleshoot sophisticated system-level stability and scalability issues and communicate solutions to architecture groups and leadership.
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 owning architecture and technical strategy across multiple teams.
- 7+ years of experience in technical leadership and architecture.
- 10+ years of development experience in AWS cloud or similar, with proficiency in Python, Go, or Java.
- Experience with distributed systems, cloud-native architecture, APIs, microservices architecture, data platforms, multi-tenant services, and production operations.
- Experience building agentic systems and using AI to improve productivity across the software development lifecycle.
- Preferred experience with SSE/SASE, zero trust, 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 analyst workflows.
- Preferred experience with large-scale 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.
- Ability to lead teams, inspire others, research emerging technologies, propose changes, debug complex systems, set engineering standards, resolve architectural tensions, mentor principal-level talent, and communicate complex ideas to mixed audiences.
Benefits
- Onsite work arrangement in Milpitas, California.
- Base salary range of $250,600.00 to $362,600.00 for U.S. and/or Canada locations, excluding incentive compensation, equity, and benefits.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance; 401(k) with Cisco matching contribution; paid parental leave; short- and long-term disability coverage; and basic life insurance.
- Potential eligibility for Cisco restricted stock unit grants.
- Paid holidays, floating holiday where applicable, birthday leave, year-end shutdown, personal wellness days, vacation or flexible vacation time, and sick time.
- Additional paid time away for critical or emergency family issues and optional paid volunteer days.
- Eligibility for annual bonuses for non-sales roles.
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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.