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Technical Leader, Software Development

Cisco Remote senior full-time

Salary

$147,400 to $198,200 per year

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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

Nice to have

  • AI-powered capabilities
  • automated diagnostics
  • remediation workflows
  • intelligent operational tooling
  • full-stack development
  • log analytics
  • telemetry pipelines
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