7 days ago
Base Salary
$241k - $417k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design reliable, scalable, and evolvable distributed search and analytics systems.
- Partner with engineering and product teams to turn technical vision into practical solutions.
- Guide complex engineering initiatives from early design through delivery and ongoing improvement.
- Improve the performance, reliability, and efficiency of the Splunk search platform.
- Simplify existing systems and build reusable platform capabilities.
- Work across organizations to resolve technical challenges and make engineering decisions.
- Share knowledge through design reviews, mentoring, and technical discussions.
- Partner with customers and support teams to address production issues and incorporate real-world usage insights.
- Contribute to technical strategy, hiring, and engineering culture.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree with 15+ years of experience, Master's degree with 12+ years, PhD with 10+ years, or equivalent practical experience.
- Experience designing and building large-scale distributed systems or data platforms.
- Experience developing software that operates reliably in production.
- Experience with distributed computing, search technologies, data processing, or query execution.
- Experience working with cloud, hybrid, or on-premises platforms.
- Experience with C++, SQL, or cloud technologies such as AWS.
- Experience with search engines, distributed query processing, or large-scale analytics platforms.
- Ability to collaborate across engineering teams and influence technical direction.
- Experience mentoring engineers and supporting technical growth.
- Knowledge of indexing, query optimization, databases, or information retrieval.
- Familiarity with Spark, Presto, Athena, or similar distributed data systems.
- Experience building cloud-native services and working with enterprise customers is preferred.
Benefits
- Starting salary range of $241,400.00 to $322,600.00 for U.S. and/or Canada locations, excluding incentive compensation, equity, and benefits.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with Cisco matching, paid parental leave, disability coverage, and basic life insurance for eligible U.S. employees.
- Potential eligibility for Cisco restricted stock unit grants.
- Paid holidays, birthday leave, year-end shutdown, wellness days, vacation or flexible time off, sick time, family emergency leave, and optional paid volunteer days.
- Eligibility for annual bonuses for non-sales roles.
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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.