# Principal Software Engineer, Developer Platforms

**Company**: Cisco
**Location**: Seattle, WA
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $241,400.00 to $322,600.00
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer to join the Developer Platforms team at Cisco. The successful candidate will provide senior technical leadership for quality systems across Developer Platforms. They will design production-grade platforms that improve software validation and release confidence across Splunk.

Responsibilities:

- Provide senior technical leadership for quality systems across Developer Platforms.

- Design production-grade platforms that improve software validation and release confidence across Splunk.

- Partner with technical leaders across Splunk and Cisco to translate architectural change into practical platform direction.

- Guide modernization and migration efforts across multiple engineering teams.

- Contribute hands-on while mentoring senior engineers.

Requirements:

- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience designing, building, and operating production-grade systems or internal platforms.

- 3+ years of experience in one or more of developer platforms, quality engineering, test frameworks, CI/CD, build systems, release automation, infrastructure platforms, or developer tooling.

- Experience with automated testing, release pipelines, service architecture, distributed systems, or comparable modern software development practices.

- Experience leading architectural change, platform modernization, or large-scale technical migrations across multiple engineering teams.

- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

- Experience providing technical leadership across teams without direct reporting authority.

- Experience building platforms for large internal engineering communities or organizations with thousands of developers.

- Experience with AI-enabled engineering workflows, quality analytics, or emerging developer productivity technologies.

- Ability to create clarity, communicate complex technical ideas, and align engineers, managers, and cross-functional stakeholders.

- Passion for improving developer experience, engineering quality, automation, and software delivery confidence.

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: $241,400.00 to $322,600.00

## Skills

### Required
- software engineering
- developer platforms
- quality engineering
- test frameworks
- CI/CD
- build systems
- release automation
- infrastructure platforms
- developer tooling

### Nice to have
- technical leadership
- platform modernization
- large-scale technical migrations
- AI-enabled engineering workflows
- quality analytics
- emerging developer productivity technologies

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