# Technical Lead - Ingest Processor Team

**Company**: Cisco
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $149,100.00 - $218,100.00
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

The Ingest Processor Team serves as the foundational engine of the Splunk Integrated Data Platform, architecting and maintaining high-throughput pipelines that process petabytes of data.

You will define and drive the long-term technical strategy for our ingestion pipelines to ensure industry-leading performance, elasticity, and scalability. You will lead the design and implementation of mission-critical distributed systems, directly influencing the reliability and performance of the entire Splunk platform.

Responsibilities:

- Define and drive the long-term technical strategy for ingestion pipelines

- Lead the design and implementation of mission-critical distributed systems

- Partner with product and platform leadership to bridge the gap between complex engineering initiatives and evolving business requirements

- Elevate the engineering organization by establishing best-in-class standards for system design, code quality, and operational excellence

- Champion the adoption of emerging technologies to solve large-scale data challenges

Requirements:

- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field

- 7+ years of professional experience in backend software development, with a primary focus on large-scale distributed systems

- Expert-level proficiency in Go or Java, including a deep, practical understanding of concurrency models and memory management

- Experience architecting, deploying, and scaling high-volume data processing pipelines systems

- Experience with cloud-native infrastructure, including Kubernetes, microservices architecture, and distributed storage systems

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 (10 paid holidays, 1 floating holiday, 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year)

- Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer

Salary Range: $149,100.00 - $218,100.00

## Skills

### Required
- Go
- Java
- Kubernetes
- microservices architecture
- distributed storage systems

### Nice to have
- influence technical strategy
- lead complex engineering roadmaps
- mentor senior engineers
- communicate complex architectural concepts

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