3 days ago
Base Salary
$178k - $257k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define and drive the technical strategy for the organization’s C++ testing ecosystem.
- Design reusable testing frameworks, libraries, and developer tooling that reduce duplication and improve engineering quality.
- Integrate quality gates into CI/CD pipelines to provide fast, actionable feedback and identify issues before production.
- Build quality platforms and dashboards showing test coverage, flaky-test trends, pipeline health, and other engineering metrics.
- Mentor engineers, influence technical decisions, promote engineering standards, and drive adoption across teams without formal authority.
Requirements
- 10+ years of professional software engineering experience with expert-level C++ skills and experience using Python or similar languages for developer tooling, automation, and test infrastructure.
- Demonstrated experience designing and maintaining reusable test frameworks or developer tools adopted by multiple engineering teams.
- Expertise with C++ testing and mocking frameworks such as GoogleTest, Google Mock, Catch2, or comparable technologies.
- Proficiency with build systems and dependency management tools such as Bazel, CMake, or similar technologies.
- Experience incorporating automated testing and developer tooling into delivery workflows involving Kubernetes, containerized environments, and microservices-based architectures.
- Familiarity with public cloud platforms including AWS, GCP, or Azure.
- Experience using observability and diagnostic tools to debug and resolve sophisticated issues.
- Deep understanding of software design for testability, including dependency injection, interface design, deterministic testing, isolation, and automation standards.
- Track record of influencing engineering standards, driving technical adoption across teams, and communicating effectively with technical partners.
- Preferred qualifications include experience with shared testing infrastructure, internal developer platforms, large-scale C++ framework modernization, multi-language platforms supporting C++, Python, Go, or Java, SDKs and libraries, distributed systems, networking, high-performance software, quality dashboards, contract testing, flaky-test management, or automated quality tooling.
Benefits
- Fully remote work from any location within the United States with reliable internet access and independent-work capability.
- 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.
- Potential Cisco restricted stock unit grants and annual bonuses subject to company policies.
- Paid holidays, floating holiday eligibility, birthday and wellness days, year-end shutdown, vacation or flexible time off, and sick time.
- Additional paid time away for critical or emergency family issues and up to 10 paid volunteer days per year.
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