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Base Salary
$139k - $204k/yr
Responsibilities
- Architect, design, and develop high-performance backend authorization services using C++.
- Contribute to Go-based services and the modernization of Splunk’s core platform.
- Lead technical design discussions and make architectural decisions concerning distributed systems, scalability, performance, reliability, and service-to-service trust.
- Own complex engineering initiatives from design through execution and coordinate implementation across engineers.
- Modernize large-scale C++ infrastructure and transition services toward cloud-native and Kubernetes-based architectures.
- Provide technical guidance through design and code reviews and collaborate across engineering teams.
- Contribute to production reliability, troubleshooting, and operational support.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field plus 7+ years of relevant experience; or a master’s degree plus 4+ years; or a PhD plus 1+ year.
- Software development experience in C++, including designing, maintaining, or enhancing complex backend systems.
- Experience designing and developing distributed systems or large-scale backend services in production environments.
- Experience with software architecture, technical design, and translating complex requirements into scalable engineering solutions.
- Experience leading technical initiatives, coordinating implementation across engineers, and driving projects from design through delivery.
- Preferred experience with Go and cloud-native infrastructure, including Kubernetes, containers, or microservices.
- Preferred experience designing high-performance, highly available systems at enterprise scale.
- Preferred understanding of identity and access management, authentication, authorization, RBAC/ABAC, or service-to-service trust models.
- Preferred experience modernizing large legacy codebases and improving system reliability and performance.
- Preferred experience with observability platforms, enterprise infrastructure, security systems, or highly distributed cloud services.
Benefits
- Remote U.S. role with location preferences excluding CA, WA, DC, MD, NJ, NY, CT, MA, VA, and AK.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with Cisco matching contributions, paid parental leave, disability coverage, and basic life insurance, subject to eligibility.
- Employees may be eligible for Cisco restricted stock unit grants.
- Paid holidays, floating holiday eligibility for non-exempt employees, birthday leave, year-end shutdown, wellness days, vacation or flexible vacation time, and sick time.
- Additional paid time away may be available for critical or emergency family issues.
- Optional 10 paid volunteer days per year.
- Annual bonuses may be available for non-sales roles.
- Application window is expected to close on October 30, 2026.
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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.