# Technical Lead - Ingest Processor Team

**Company**: Cisco
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $162,300.00 to $234,800.00
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

The Ingest Processor Team is the foundational engine of the Splunk Integrated Data Platform, responsible for the architecture and evolution of high-throughput pipelines that process petabytes of data for real-time observability and security.

As a Technical Lead on the Ingest Processor Team, you will shape technology and engineering priorities across teams while remaining close to the hardest distributed systems problems in the platform.

Your Impact:

- Translate regional and functional strategy into a long-term technical vision for the ingestion platform, with clear engineering priorities and alignment across teams.

- Lead major, multi-team initiatives that advance the scale, performance, security, reliability, and cost efficiency of the Splunk platform.

- Set architectural direction by making whole-system trade-offs and defining new platform capabilities where customer needs require them.

- Influence product and program priorities, delivery timing, and technical specifications with engineering, product, and cross-functional leaders.

- Establish standards and sustainable processes for software development, production issue identification, response, and continuous improvement.

- Mentor and influence senior engineers, strengthen knowledge-sharing practices, and represent the team's technical work within the broader professional community.

Minimum Qualifications:

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field plus 12+ years of related experience; or a Master's degree plus 8+ years; or a PhD plus 5+ years of related experience.

- Expertise in large-scale distributed systems, high-volume data ingestion, streaming architectures, and the performance and reliability patterns required for petabyte-scale production platforms.

- Specialized depth and broad technical acumen in Go or Java, including concurrency, memory management, secure coding, testing, debugging, and performance optimization in complex production systems.

- Experience translating business or product strategy into a technical vision and lead major engineering programs that span multiple teams, a business segment, a function, or a region.

- Experience defining architecture and engineering standards across teams, including observability, incident response, root-cause analysis, risk reduction, and continuous improvement for production systems.

- Experience with cloud-native infrastructure and distributed data technologies, including Kubernetes, microservices, distributed storage, messaging or streaming systems, and public-cloud platforms.

Preferred Qualifications:

- Industry or thought leadership in scale, performance, distributed-system design patterns, or real-time data platforms, demonstrated through broad organizational impact, technical publications, or external presentations.

- Exceptional ability to influence technical and product direction, build durable relationships with key stakeholders, and negotiate trade-offs in timing, design, and specifications across organizational boundaries.

- A strong record of mentoring and influencing senior engineers, improving knowledge-sharing systems, and raising technical judgment, code quality, and operational excellence across teams.

- Demonstrated product sense and customer focus, including the ability to define meaningful success metrics, drive adoption, anticipate unmet needs, and apply emerging technologies to create durable customer value.

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 (vacation, holidays, sick time)

- Optional 10 paid days per year to volunteer

Salary Range:

- $162,300.00 to $234,800.00 per year (U.S. and Canada locations)

## Skills

### Required
- distributed systems
- data ingestion
- streaming architectures
- Go
- Java
- Kubernetes
- microservices

### Nice to have
- scale
- performance
- distributed-system design patterns
- real-time data platforms

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