Cisco

Software Engineering Technical Leader

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19 hours ago
Tel Aviv-Yafo, IsraelStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Set technical direction for complex end-to-end product capabilities and balance customer needs, delivery plans, and long-term platform health.
  • Lead architecture and design for scalable distributed systems using relational and NoSQL databases, message queues, and event-driven patterns.
  • Guide development of modern web experiences, backend services, and cross-product integrations.
  • Lead technical discussions and architecture decisions across engineering, product, design, and partner teams.
  • Improve security, scalability, resilience, performance, observability, and production readiness.
  • Remain hands-on through coding, design and code reviews, and resolution of complex technical and production issues.
  • Mentor engineers and technical leads and strengthen collaboration across geographically distributed teams.
  • Develop reusable AI-assisted or agent-based workflows for implementation, testing, review, documentation, and delivery.
  • Establish human review, automated testing, security checks, evaluation, and monitoring controls for AI-assisted development.

Requirements

  • 9+ years of hands-on software development experience or equivalent practical experience.
  • Strong experience with cloud-native architectures, microservices, APIs, production operations, and scalable reliable distributed systems.
  • Hands-on experience with SQL and NoSQL databases, message queues, and event-driven architectures.
  • Experience with modern software development practices, observability, and production system integration.
  • Ability to set technical direction, make architecture decisions, and guide delivery across multiple engineers or teams.
  • Strong communication skills for explaining trade-offs and building alignment across engineering and product teams.
  • Preferred: full-stack software development experience and experience integrating AI capabilities into production software.
  • Preferred: experience with AI coding assistants, agent-based tools, or reusable AI-enabled engineering workflows in the software development lifecycle.
  • Preferred: experience evaluating AI-generated code and workflows for correctness, security, privacy, reliability, and maintainability.
  • Preferred: experience leading geographically distributed teams and cross-functional initiatives, plus strong written and verbal English communication skills.

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About Cisco

10,000+ employees

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.

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