Description
The Splunk Agent Resilience team at Cisco is looking for a Staff Software Engineer to provide technical leadership for the architecture, scalability, and cost of the entire data plane. The successful candidate will define the multi-quarter technical direction for the data platform, establish standards for other teams to build against, and own initiatives to keep the platform fast and correct as it grows.
Key responsibilities include:
- Defining and driving the multi-quarter technical roadmap for the data platform
- Leading the architecture and evolution of the data plane
- Establishing platform-wide standards for schema design, migration safety, and retention of data
- Leading major scalability and performance initiatives
- Driving cost efficiency and cost attribution
The ideal candidate will have:
- 8+ years of experience in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field
- Technical leadership experience
- Experience with designing, operating, and delivering highly scalable, reliable, production-grade data-intensive platforms
- Backend software engineering experience with languages such as Go, Java, Rust, C++, or Python
Preferred qualifications include:
- Demonstrated performance engineering ability
- Experience operating and tuning OLTP databases and analytical stores
- Deep production experience with streaming or queueing systems
- Experience scaling data-processing compute and running ClickHouse or a comparable columnar store at scale