# Technical Leader

**Company**: Cisco
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $177,600.00 to $257,400.00
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

At Cisco, we are redefining how our customers experience technology through the power of Cisco IQ Services and Applications.

In this role, you will act as a key technical leader, shaping the overarching vision and future of our digital services.

Responsibilities:

- Design and lead the hands-on implementation of next-generation, intelligent enterprise applications.

- Embed autonomous and semi-autonomous agentic capabilities directly into business-critical application workflows.

- Focus on the application layer,designing contract-first, spec-driven architectures that connect application business logic, user interfaces, and backend systems to reasoning models via Model Context Protocol (MCP) and modern API ecosystems.

Minimum Qualifications:

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

- Bachelors +12 years of experience in back-end software architecture and core software development using Python, Node, Go, or Java.

- Experience building and shipping complex enterprise or SaaS applications.

- Production experience with LLM-backed applications: agent orchestration LangGraph, a state-machine runtime, structured tool calling, and failure handling.

- Experience with a contract-first API design and schema modeling (OpenAPI, TypeSpec, GraphQL, gRPC).

Preferred Qualifications:

- Domain expertise in networking protocols, large-scale infrastructure management, and system-level design.

- Proficiency in designing and managing cloud-agnostic, distributed architectures across AWS, GCP, and private cloud environments.

- Exceptional communication and executive presence, with the proven ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders and translate high-level technical vision into actionable, long-term business outcomes.

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: $177,600.00 to $257,400.00

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- Node
- Go
- Java
- OpenAPI
- TypeSpec
- GraphQL
- gRPC
- LangGraph

### Nice to have
- AWS
- GCP
- cloud-agnostic distributed architectures
- networking protocols
- large-scale infrastructure management

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