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