3 days ago
Base Salary
$152k - $222k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead the architecture, design, and implementation of complex platform capabilities spanning multiple products and engineering teams.
- Drive scalable, reusable, maintainable software designs that improve product quality, reliability, and customer experience.
- Partner with Product Managers, Architects, and Development teams to shape technical roadmaps and influence product direction.
- Own critical subsystems throughout their lifecycle, including design, production support, and continuous improvement.
- Drive design reviews, code reviews, automated testing, observability, CI/CD, and performance engineering.
- Mentor engineers and provide coaching, design guidance, and technical leadership across multiple teams.
- Lead technical investigations, performance optimization, and root cause analysis for complex customer issues.
- Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend improvements to scalability, security, and developer productivity.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field plus 8 years of related experience, or a master’s degree plus 6 years of related experience.
- Proficiency in Go and Python with experience delivering production-quality software.
- Experience designing distributed systems, REST APIs, microservices, and containerized applications using Docker and Kubernetes.
- Experience with CI/CD, Git, automated testing frameworks, performance benchmarking, and observability platforms such as Splunk, AppDynamics, or ThousandEyes.
- Understanding of software architecture, scalability, reliability, Linux internals, and performance engineering.
- Experience leading technical design discussions and influencing architecture across multiple engineering teams.
- Demonstrated mentoring and technical leadership experience across multiple teams.
- Preferred experience with JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Splunk Enterprise, Enterprise Security, ITSI, or similar observability platforms.
- Preferred experience with on-premises and air-gapped enterprise deployments, infrastructure automation tools, Kubernetes Operators, distributed storage systems, enterprise platform software, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform, or open-source contributions.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement combining onsite and remote work, with specific days coordinated with the team and manager.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) with Cisco matching contribution, paid parental leave, short- and long-term disability coverage, and basic life insurance for eligible U.S. employees.
- 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 time off, sick time, family emergency leave, and optional paid volunteer days.
Tech Stack
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.