# Software Engineering Technical Leader (hybrid)

**Company**: Cisco
**Location**: RTP, North Carolina, NC
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $151,600.00 to $222,400.00
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We are seeking a Software Engineering Technical Leader to join our Enterprise Integrated Systems team. As a hybrid role, you will work both onsite and remotely. You will lead the architecture, design, and implementation of complex platform capabilities spanning multiple products and engineering teams.

Responsibilities:

- Lead the architecture, design, and implementation of complex platform capabilities

- Drive scalable, reusable, and maintainable software designs

- Partner with Product Managers, Architects, and Development teams to shape technical roadmaps

- Own critical subsystems throughout their lifecycle

- Drive engineering excellence through design reviews, code reviews, automated testing, observability, CI/CD, and performance engineering

- Mentor engineers and raise the technical bar

- Lead technical investigations, performance optimization, and root cause analysis for complex customer issues

- Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend architectural improvements

Requirements:

- Bachelors + 8 years of related experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Masters + 6 years of related experience

- Applied experience and proficiency in Go and Python

- Prior experience designing distributed systems, REST APIs, microservices, and containerized applications using Docker and Kubernetes

- Applied experience with CI/CD, Git, automated testing frameworks, performance benchmarking, and observability platforms

- Understanding of software architecture, scalability, reliability, Linux internals, and performance engineering

- Prior experience leading technical design discussions and influencing architecture across multiple engineering teams

- Demonstrated experience in mentoring and technical leadership across multiple teams

Preferred Qualifications:

- Past experience with front end technologies (JavaScript, TypeScript and React, etc)

- Experience with Splunk Enterprise, Enterprise Security (ES), ITSI, or similar observability platforms

- Experience building software for on-premises and air-gapped enterprise deployments

- Experience with infrastructure automation tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, or CloudFormation

- Experience with Kubernetes Operators, distributed storage systems, or enterprise platform software

- Experience with AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform

- Experience with contributing to open-source projects

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

- Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer

Salary Range: $151,600.00 to $222,400.00

## Skills

### Required
- Go
- Python
- distributed systems
- REST APIs
- microservices
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- CI/CD
- Git
- automated testing frameworks
- performance benchmarking
- observability platforms

### Nice to have
- JavaScript
- TypeScript
- React
- Splunk Enterprise
- Enterprise Security (ES)
- ITSI
- Terraform
- Ansible
- Puppet
- CloudFormation
- Kubernetes Operators
- distributed storage systems
- enterprise platform software
- AWS
- Azure
- Google Cloud Platform
- open-source projects

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