29 days ago
Base Salary
$168k - $245k/yr
Responsibilities
- Architect and operate scalable data pipelines ingesting petabyte-scale telemetry from more than 25 million network devices.
- Build and maintain resilient, high-performance distributed systems and backend services in Kubernetes environments.
- Translate complex data requirements into dependable data products in collaboration with product and engineering teams.
- Establish observability standards using ELK and Grafana to identify issues and improve system recovery.
- Integrate AI-assisted engineering tools and ensure deployments meet standards for security, validation, and design quality.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree with 5 years of related experience, master’s degree with 3 years, PhD with 0 years, or equivalent related work experience.
- Production experience building, operating, or debugging distributed systems or backend services processing large volumes of telemetry data.
- Production programming experience with Scala, C++, or Java.
- Experience designing and managing real-time streaming or batch data pipelines using frameworks such as Kafka, Spark, or Flink.
- Production experience deploying and maintaining containerized workloads on Kubernetes clusters.
- Preferred experience with SQL, distributed data stores, or cloud-native services.
- Preferred familiarity with network telemetry, networking protocols, or large fleet-management systems.
- Preferred experience with Terraform, Ansible, Elasticsearch, or Grafana for infrastructure automation and monitoring.
- Open-source contributions, personal systems projects, or other evidence of technical curiosity are preferred.
Benefits
- Benefits include medical, dental, and vision insurance; a 401(k) with Cisco matching contributions; paid parental leave; disability coverage; and basic life insurance.
- Employees may be eligible for Cisco restricted stock unit grants and annual bonuses for non-sales roles.
- Paid time off includes holidays, floating holidays, birthday and wellness days, vacation or flexible vacation, sick time, volunteer days, and other approved paid leave.
- The posting includes paid year-end shutdown and additional paid time away for critical or emergency family matters.
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.