# Engineering Productivity Technical Leader

**Company**: Cisco
**Location**: RTP, NC or San Jose, CA
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $214,100.00 to $309,800.00
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

The Engineering Productivity team at Cisco makes engineering faster, safer, and more effective at scale. As an Engineering Productivity Technical Leader, you will serve as a key technical liaison and force multiplier across the organization, driving productivity strategy, building bridges, and championing a productivity culture.

**Responsibilities:**

- Drive Productivity Strategy: Shape technical strategy across the developer platform, CI/CD, build and test infrastructure, tooling, and AI-assisted development.

- Build Bridges: Connect Platform, Application, Product, Security, and Operations to find and remove friction that slows engineers down.

- Champion a Productivity Culture: Evangelize measurement, golden paths, and continuous improvement of the developer experience.

- Build the Internal Developer Platform: Design self-service platforms, golden paths, and paved roads for teams to provision, build, and deploy.

- Optimize the Inner Loop: Deliver fast local and cloud development environments, dev containers, and quick feedback.

- Modernize CI/CD and Build Systems: Deliver fast, reliable pipelines with build caching and incremental builds.

- Instrument Developer Productivity: Establish metrics and observability for the software delivery lifecycle.

- Integrate AI into Development: Bring AI code assistants, AI-assisted review, test generation, and agentic development workflows into the everyday toolchain.

- Ensure Platform Reliability: Keep the productivity platform, CI/CD, and developer tooling resilient and performant.

- Partner Externally: Build relationships with vendors, open-source communities, and industry peers.

- Partner Internally: Build relationships across teams to understand technical and business needs.

- Mentor & Develop: Provide technical leadership and coaching to elevate capabilities.

- Stay Future-Ready: Keep abreast of emerging trends in developer productivity, platform engineering, and AI-assisted development.

**Requirements:**

- 10+ years in engineering productivity, developer platforms, DevOps, build/release, or infrastructure engineering with demonstrated technical leadership progression.

- BS or MS in Engineering, STEM, or related field.

- Proven track record designing and implementing developer platforms, tooling, or CI/CD and build systems that serve multiple teams.

**Preferred Qualifications:**

- Experience building internal developer platforms, platform-as-a-service offerings, or developer portals.

- Experience in productivity measurement and delivery practices, including DORA metrics, SLOs, quality gates, and CI/CD.

- Cross-organizational influence with the ability to build consensus and drive adoption of technical strategies and tooling.

- Expertise with CI/CD and GitOps platforms, modern build systems, and cloud-native platforms.

- Proficiency with IaC tools, cloud-native platforms, and programming languages.

- Experience instrumenting the SDLC with observability tooling.

- Hands-on experience integrating AI-assisted and agentic development tools.

- Familiarity with DevEx research methods.

- Strong communication skills with the ability to influence technical decisions.

**Benefits:**

- Medical, dental, and vision insurance.

- 401(k) plan with Cisco matching contribution.

- Paid parental leave.

- Short and long-term disability coverage.

- Basic life insurance.

- Paid time away.

- Optional 10 paid days per year to volunteer.

- Annual bonuses for non-sales roles.

- Performance-based incentive pay for sales roles.

## Skills

### Required
- engineering productivity
- developer platforms
- DevOps
- build/release
- infrastructure engineering
- technical leadership

### Nice to have
- internal developer platforms
- productivity measurement
- DORA metrics
- CI/CD
- GitOps
- cloud-native platforms
- IaC tools
- observability tooling
- AI-assisted development

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