26 days ago
Base Salary
$152k - $222k/yr
Responsibilities
- Set the long-term technical direction for the connectivity platform, including architecture and build-versus-buy decisions.
- Build services, APIs, and infrastructure as code for self-service provisioning of VPCs, VNETs, load balancers, private endpoints, and transit connections.
- Lead major technical initiatives involving self-service provisioning and future network architecture.
- Mentor engineers through code reviews, design feedback, pairing, and coaching.
- Shape standards for code quality, testing, and observability.
- Participate in a weekly on-call rotation, respond to customer incidents, and fix root causes to reduce operational toil.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree and 8 years of related experience, or Master’s degree and 6 years, or PhD and 3 years.
- Experience building and operating large-scale production systems in Go and/or Python.
- Experience with Layer 3 and Layer 4 networking, including IP routing, CIDR design, NAT, TCP, UDP, load balancing, and TLS.
- Experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure cloud networking, including VPCs or VNETs, route tables, security groups, transit gateways, and private endpoints.
- Experience building infrastructure as code with Terraform at scale, including reusable modules and safe CI/CD promotion to production.
- Experience leading major technical initiatives and influencing engineering direction beyond the immediate team.
- Preferred experience with multi-cloud transit and hybrid connectivity, AWS Cloud WAN, Transit Gateway, Aviatrix, BGP, Direct Connect, Cloud Interconnect, or IPsec VPN.
- Preferred experience with AWS PrivateLink, GCP Private Service Connect, Azure Private Link, IP address management at scale, NetBox, IPv6 dual-stack design, BYOIP, Kubernetes, or regulated environments such as GovCloud, FedRAMP, or DoD IL5.
- Strong communication and mentoring skills, including experience growing engineers across levels and explaining complex networking topics to engineers and executives.
Benefits
- The posted starting salary range is $151,600.00 to $222,400.00, excluding incentive compensation, equity, and benefits.
- Benefits may include medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) with Cisco matching contributions, paid parental leave, disability coverage, and basic life insurance.
- Eligible employees may receive Cisco restricted stock unit grants and annual bonuses for non-sales roles.
- Paid time off includes holidays, floating and personal days, wellness days, vacation or flexible vacation, sick time, emergency family leave, and optional volunteer days.
- The posting provides U.S. and Canada compensation information and state-specific salary ranges.
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.