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Software Engineering Technical Leader

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2 months ago
Kraków, PolandStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Design and build microservices and Linux components that install, configure, and operate the platform on Kubernetes.
  • Develop production services in Go and Python for platform lifecycle management and cloud connectivity.
  • Contribute to connected cloud services when needed to solve end-to-end platform problems.
  • Automate platform build, installation, and upgrades with Ansible across standard, hardened, and air-gapped Linux and Kubernetes environments.
  • Improve secure connectivity, message routing, and reliable data and file transfer between on-premises and cloud systems.
  • Partner with design and product management to deliver customer-focused solutions.
  • Create technical design documentation and contribute to end-user documentation.
  • Debug and resolve development and production issues supporting customers.
  • Lead technical direction, product innovation, engineering improvements, feature delivery, mentoring, and knowledge sharing.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree and 8 years of related experience, or master’s degree and 6 years of related experience.
  • Deep hands-on experience designing, building, and operating production microservices.
  • Commercial experience developing production systems in Go.
  • Working proficiency in Python for platform, tooling, or service code.
  • Strong Linux/Unix experience and expert-level Kubernetes knowledge, including resilient and highly available architecture design.
  • Practical Ansible experience plus at least one of Terraform, Puppet, Chef, or Helm in a Git-based workflow.
  • Solid understanding of secure and reliable distributed-systems communication between on-premises software and cloud services.
  • Ability to scope work accurately, provide reliable estimates, translate business needs into technical direction, and recommend industry standards.
  • Preferred experience with edge, on-premises, air-gapped, or restricted-network deployments.
  • Preferred experience leading features, mentoring peers, facilitating knowledge sharing, leading postmortems and root-cause analysis, and managing on-call coverage.
  • Preferred experience influencing architecture for security, scalability, and reliability.
  • Preferred familiarity with agentic AI development tools, FIPS-mode cryptography, hardened Linux baselines, compliance-driven engineering, and Java.

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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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