# Technical Leader, Software Development

**Company**: Cisco
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $147,400.00 to $198,200.00
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Join Cisco's Splunk engineering organization as a Technical Leader, Software Development, and help shape the next generation of data ingestion monitoring.

Our team builds a production monitoring solution that helps Splunk Cloud customers understand the health and performance of their data ingestion pipelines through dashboards, intelligent alerts, and proactive diagnostics.

As a Technical Leader, Software Development, you'll be a hands-on technical lead responsible for designing and delivering scalable backend services while helping shape the evolution of Splunk's ingest monitoring platform.

Your responsibilities include:

- Designing and building scalable backend services and APIs on Splunk Cloud Platform

- Driving technical execution by partnering with engineers, engineering managers, and architects

- Developing new monitoring and AI-powered capabilities

- Shaping the evolution of the monitoring platform by building integrations and contributing to cross-organizational initiatives

- Ensuring production reliability through troubleshooting and incident resolution

The successful candidate will have:

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field and 8+ years of relevant software engineering experience

- Experience designing, developing, and operating backend services or applications in a public cloud environment

- Experience architecting or developing scalable distributed systems

- Hands-on software development experience building backend applications, services, or APIs using Python, Go, or Java

- Experience providing technical leadership on software engineering projects

Preferred qualifications include:

- Experience developing or operating production SaaS platforms

- Experience with Splunk, log analytics, telemetry pipelines, or similar large-scale data platforms

- Full-stack development experience

- Experience designing or implementing AI-powered capabilities

- Experience using AI-assisted development tools or coding agents

In terms of compensation, the starting salary range for this position in the U.S. and/or Canada is $147,400.00 to $198,200.00.

Benefits include medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, paid parental leave, short and long-term disability coverage, and basic life insurance.

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- Go
- Java
- Splunk
- cloud computing
- software engineering
- backend services
- distributed systems

### Nice to have
- AI-powered capabilities
- automated diagnostics
- remediation workflows
- intelligent operational tooling
- full-stack development
- log analytics
- telemetry pipelines

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