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Base Salary
$187k - $268k/yr
Responsibilities
- Develop software for Cisco Nexus 9000 datacenter switching and AI networking environments.
- Lead medium-to-large features and projects from technical design through completion across multiple teams.
- Write clean production code and unit tests while influencing secure, scalable, and reliable architectural decisions.
- Debug and resolve software issues in development and production systems, including customer escalations.
- Design and maintain monitoring tools, respond to alerts, lead postmortems, and support root-cause analysis and on-call coverage.
- Contribute to threat modeling, risk management, software development lifecycle practices, and engineering strategy.
- Mentor engineers, improve technical designs and development processes, and influence the software engineering roadmap.
- Communicate delivery trade-offs, estimates, and technical decisions with cross-functional partners and customers.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree plus 8 years of related experience, master’s degree plus 6 years, or PhD plus 3 years.
- Experience with datacenter switches and networking.
- Experience handling customer escalations and troubleshooting L2/L3 technologies and NXOS infrastructure.
- Preferred experience with L2/L3/VXLAN forwarding, AI networking, customer support, and scripting or development in networking.
- Ability to design and maintain scalable infrastructure automation using Python.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills for aligning technical and non-technical customers.
- Comfort using AI tools such as Copilot and Cursor.
Benefits
- Salary range is $186,900.00 to $267,700.00, with additional location-specific ranges listed for certain U.S. states and regions.
- Benefits may include medical, dental, vision, 401(k) matching, paid parental leave, disability coverage, life insurance, and restricted stock units, subject to eligibility.
- Paid time away includes holidays, birthday leave, year-end shutdown, wellness days, vacation or flexible vacation, sick time, family emergency leave, and optional volunteer days.
- Non-sales employees may be eligible for annual bonuses subject to Cisco policies.
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.