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Base Salary
$139k - $204k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead architecture, design, and implementation of complex platform capabilities across multiple products and engineering teams.
- Build scalable, reusable, and maintainable software that improves quality, reliability, and customer experience.
- Own critical subsystems from design through production support and continuous improvement.
- Drive design reviews, code reviews, automated testing, observability, CI/CD, and performance engineering.
- Partner with Product Managers, Architects, and development teams on technical roadmaps and product direction.
- Lead technical investigations, performance optimization, and root cause analysis for complex customer issues.
- Mentor engineers and provide technical leadership across teams.
- Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend improvements to scalability, security, and developer productivity.
Requirements
- Expert-level proficiency in Go and Python with a record of delivering production-quality software.
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- At least 7 years of professional software engineering experience building enterprise-grade software.
- Experience designing distributed systems, REST APIs, microservices, and containerized applications with Docker and Kubernetes.
- Experience with Git, automated testing frameworks, performance benchmarking, and observability platforms such as Splunk, AppDynamics, or ThousandEyes.
- Strong understanding of software architecture, scalability, reliability, Linux internals, and performance engineering.
- Experience leading technical design discussions and influencing architecture across multiple engineering teams.
- Preferred experience with Splunk Enterprise, Enterprise Security, ITSI, on-premises or air-gapped deployments, Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, CloudFormation, Kubernetes Operators, distributed storage, AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.
- Preferred experience contributing to open-source projects, working directly with enterprise customers, and mentoring across multiple teams.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement balancing onsite collaboration and remote work, with specific days coordinated with the team and manager.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance; 401(k) with Cisco matching; paid parental leave; disability coverage; and basic life insurance, subject to eligibility.
- Potential eligibility for Cisco restricted stock units and annual bonuses for non-sales roles.
- Paid holidays, floating holiday, birthday leave, year-end shutdown, wellness days, vacation or flexible time off, sick time, family emergency leave, and optional volunteer days, subject to applicable policies.
- Base salary range of $139,300.00 to $203,600.00 for U.S. and/or Canada locations, with location-specific ranges also provided.
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.