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Technical Lead

Cisco Remote senior full-time

Salary

$186,900 to $267,700 per year

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Description

We are seeking a Technical Lead to join our team at Cisco, specifically within the Cisco Secure Workload product, which offers workload protection, micro-segmentation, and is part of the Hybrid Mesh Firewall solution.

As a Technical Lead, you will work with and provide technical leadership to a team of highly motivated engineers working on solutions to ship or deploy for our customers, with a focus on improving Scale, Performance, Reliability, Robustness, and, most importantly, Security.

In this role you’ll provide technical leadership and make architectural contributions in backend services that:

  • Collect and process telemetry at scale from data sources in customer environments
  • React to changes in environment and render policies in highly scalable manner to large number of enforcement points
  • Implement API endpoints that need to respond with minimal latencies even when crunching large volumes of data
  • Will be deployed in highly complex distributed system environments and involve failure modes unique to those environments.

Minimum Qualifications:

  • At least 6+ years' experience building software systems in one or more programming languages such as Go, C++, or Java
  • Technical leadership experience in a software engineering environment
  • Agile experience
  • Bachelor's degree with 6 years of related experience, Master's with 4 years, PhD with 2 years, or equivalent combination of education and experience

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Proficiency in Computer Science foundational areas, including algorithms, systems, databases, performance engineering and security architecture
  • Schema/Data modeling design experience
  • Experience with large-scale event processing architectures
  • Experience in systems programming and performance engineering
  • Experience working with security architecture and database design
  • Kubernetes experience
  • Experience programming using cloud APIs for AWS, Azure, or GCP

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
  • 10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees
  • 1 paid day off for employee’s birthday, paid year-end holiday shutdown, and 4 paid days off for personal wellness
  • Non-exempt employees receive 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year
  • Exempt employees participate in Cisco’s flexible vacation time off program
  • 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter
  • Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer

Salary Range:

  • $186,900.00 to $267,700.00

Skills

Nice to have

  • algorithms
  • systems
  • databases
  • performance engineering
  • security architecture
  • schema/data modeling
  • large-scale event processing architectures
  • systems programming
  • Kubernetes
  • cloud APIs
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