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.