21 hours ago
Base Salary
$152k - $222k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define multi-year technical roadmaps and architectural vision for multi-tenant cloud platforms and hybrid data environments.
- Architect distributed RAG, agentic workflow, multimodal LLM, and secure vector retrieval applications.
- Design fault-tolerant, elastic systems with high-concurrency processing, messaging, caching, and multi-region persistence.
- Establish security, compliance, resilience, API, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and observability standards.
- Lead global architecture review boards and drive technical consensus across matrixed engineering teams.
- Mentor Lead Software Engineers and align technology stacks with enterprise goals.
- Partner with product and engineering executives to translate business strategy into execution plans.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree with 8+ years of related experience or master’s degree with 6+ years of related experience.
- At least 4 years of software development experience as a Technical Lead or in a similar lead role across large-scale systems.
- Production-grade Python experience building microservices and event-driven architectures.
- Experience with cloud-native ecosystems, container orchestration, and automated CI/CD infrastructure.
- Experience designing high-concurrency distributed data pipelines and messaging systems.
- Experience designing API contracts using gRPC, REST, and GraphQL and applying domain-driven design.
- Preferred experience with scalable MLOps, LLM integration frameworks, agentic AI platforms, fine-tuning infrastructure, or vector search integrations.
- Preferred experience with observability platforms, chaos engineering, and formal SRE frameworks.
- Preferred industry influence through open-source contributions, patents, architecture standards, or conference speaking.
- Strong ability to navigate ambiguity, build technical consensus, and communicate complex architecture.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) with Cisco matching contribution, paid parental leave, disability coverage, and basic life insurance, subject to eligibility.
- Potential eligibility for Cisco restricted stock unit grants.
- Paid holidays, floating holiday, birthday day off, year-end shutdown, personal wellness days, vacation or flexible time off, and sick time.
- Up to 10 optional paid volunteer days per year.
- Additional paid time away may be available for critical family or emergency issues.
- Annual bonuses may be available for non-sales roles.
Tech Stack
Amazon DynamoDBApache CassandraApache KafkaAWSAzureDockerGoogle Cloud PlatformGrafanaGraphQLgRPCKubernetesPostgreSQLPrometheusPythonRedis
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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.