1 day ago
Base Salary
$168k - $245k/yr
Responsibilities
- Architect and operate high-throughput data pipelines for telemetry from more than 25 million network devices.
- Build and maintain scalable distributed systems for data ingestion, processing, and storage.
- Deploy and maintain containerized workloads on production Kubernetes clusters.
- Establish observability standards using ELK and Grafana to identify issues and improve recovery.
- Collaborate across product and engineering teams to deliver dependable data products and operational insights.
- Integrate AI-assisted engineering tools while maintaining standards for security, validation, and design quality.
Requirements
- Production experience building, operating, or debugging distributed systems or backend services processing at least 1TB of telemetry data daily.
- Production programming experience with Scala, C++, or Java.
- Experience designing and managing streaming or batch data pipelines using Kafka, Spark, Flink, or similar frameworks.
- Production experience deploying and maintaining containerized workloads on Kubernetes.
- Experience with Terraform, Ansible, Elasticsearch, or Grafana for infrastructure automation and monitoring.
- Familiarity with network telemetry, networking protocols, or large fleet-management systems is preferred.
- Experience with SQL, distributed data stores, or cloud-native services in production is preferred.
- Open-source contributions, personal systems projects, or other evidence of technical curiosity are preferred.
- Strong problem-solving skills and a pragmatic, organized approach to software quality, testing, and operational ownership are preferred.
Benefits
- Starting salary range is $167,700.00 to $245,200.00, with additional location-specific ranges listed for certain U.S. states and regions.
- Benefits may include medical, dental and vision insurance, 401(k) matching, paid parental leave, disability coverage, life insurance, restricted stock units, bonuses, and paid time away.
- Paid time away includes holidays, birthday and wellness days, vacation or flexible vacation depending on employee classification, sick time, family emergency leave, and optional volunteer days.
- The application window is expected to close on 10/26/2026.
Tech Stack
Categories
Data 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.