10 days ago
Base Salary
$139k - $204k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead the architecture, design, and implementation of platform capabilities spanning multiple products and engineering teams.
- Develop scalable, reusable, maintainable software that improves reliability, product quality, and customer experience.
- Own critical subsystems from design through production support and continuous improvement.
- Partner with Product Managers, Architects, and Development teams on technical roadmaps and product direction.
- Conduct design reviews, code reviews, automated testing, observability, CI/CD, and performance engineering.
- Mentor engineers and provide technical leadership and design guidance.
- 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
- 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 CI/CD, 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 includes Splunk Enterprise, Enterprise Security, ITSI, on-premises or air-gapped deployments, infrastructure automation, Kubernetes Operators, distributed storage, enterprise platform software, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform, open-source projects, enterprise customers, mentoring, and technical leadership.
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 contribution, paid parental leave, short- and long-term disability coverage, and basic life insurance, subject to eligibility.
- Potential Cisco restricted stock unit grants subject to continued employment and vesting terms.
- Paid holidays, floating holiday, birthday day off, year-end shutdown, wellness days, vacation or flexible vacation, sick time, family emergency leave, and optional paid volunteer days, subject to applicable policies.
- Non-sales employees may be eligible for annual bonuses subject to Cisco policies.
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.