# Software Engineer

**Company**: Cisco
**Location**: Boulder, Colorado
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $139,300.00 to $203,600.00
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

The Edge Processor Team at Cisco serves as the foundational engine of the Splunk Integrated Data Platform, architecting and maintaining high-throughput pipelines that process petabytes of data on the customer’s edge environment. This role offers a unique opportunity to solve complex distributed systems challenges at a scale unmatched in the industry.

**Your Impact**

- Leading the end-to-end delivery of complex projects that span multiple months, including the complete software development cycle

- Setting technical vision for the team, including improving processes and providing coding and design guidelines

- Identifying and resolving pre-production system bottlenecks and production issues

- Engaging in design and code reviews of the product

- Making code maintainable and the product diagnosable and serviceable

- Participating in rotating on-call duties to diagnose and solve customer issues

**Minimum Qualifications**

- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field and 7+ years of experience in backend software development

- Experience with Go or C++ programming language, and working with concurrency models and memory management

- Experience architecting, deploying, and scaling high-volume data processing pipeline systems

- Experience with high-performance data paths in streaming ingestion systems

**Preferred Qualifications**

- Familiarity and experience with observability platforms using Open Telemetry

- Infrastructure experience with Kubernetes and on-premise deployments

- Ability to influence technical strategy and align stakeholders across multiple teams and organizational levels

**Benefits**

- Medical, dental, and vision insurance

- 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution

- Paid parental leave

- Short and long-term disability coverage

- Basic life insurance

- Paid time away, including holidays, vacation time, and sick time

## Skills

### Required
- Go
- C++
- backend software development
- distributed systems
- data processing pipelines

### Nice to have
- Open Telemetry
- Kubernetes
- observability platforms

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