1 day ago
Base Salary
$296k - $375k/yr
Responsibilities
- Deploy directly into customer environments to observe workflows, identify friction, and build rapid prototypes.
- Lead research-to-code initiatives applying networking and security expertise to real-world problems.
- Use verified customer engagement and usage metrics to influence product roadmaps.
- Architect and transition prototypes into secure, multi-tenant, scalable enterprise services.
- Design systems with observability, failure handling, ergonomics, and complex authorization models.
- Provide technical consultation and translate customer challenges into scalable software solutions.
- Mentor engineers and drive technical decisions across cross-functional and cross-organizational teams.
- Promote a customer-first, high-velocity engineering culture while maintaining enterprise compliance standards.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in STEM and 15+ years of relevant experience, or a master’s degree and 12+ years, or a PhD and 8+ years, or equivalent related work experience.
- Experience building and operating scalable, highly distributed, multi-tenant systems with strict isolation and security boundaries.
- Experience building external-facing developer platforms or infrastructure-focused products.
- Experience with end-to-end system design, including observability, failure handling, ergonomics, and authorization models such as RBAC, ABAC, or policy-based enforcement.
- Ability to decompose complex problems into actionable deliverables and exercise sound technical judgment.
- Experience building shared infrastructure, abstractions, and paved roads that improve engineering productivity.
- Proficiency with spec-driven and schema-driven development, code generation, strongly typed API contracts, and implementation traceability.
- Understanding of SaaS and on-premise deployment architectures and operational constraints.
- Ability to mentor team members and influence technical decisions across organizational boundaries.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance for eligible U.S. employees.
- 401(k) plan with Cisco matching contributions.
- Paid parental leave, short- and long-term disability coverage, and basic life insurance.
- Potential eligibility for Cisco restricted stock unit grants.
- Paid holidays, floating holidays, birthday leave, year-end shutdown, personal wellness days, vacation or flexible time off, and sick time.
- Up to 10 paid volunteer days per year and additional paid time away for critical family or emergency issues.
- Eligible non-sales employees may receive annual bonuses.
- Hybrid work arrangement is indicated in the job title.
Categories
Forward Deployed
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.