# Software Engineering Technical Leader (Hybrid)

**Company**: Cisco
**Location**: San Jose, California
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $186,900.00 to $267,700.00
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Join a highly skilled group at Cisco responsible for validating and ensuring technical readiness of network solutions for Scale Data Center Infrastructure customers. As a Software Engineering Technical Leader in a hybrid role, you will lead customer escalations and end-to-end technical validation of network solutions, reproduce customer environments, and verify operational workflows.

Your responsibilities will include:

- Leading solution-level validation, design qualification, or deployment-readiness initiatives for complex data center environments

- Designing structured test plans, performing hands-on lab testing, and coordinating root-cause analysis with engineering teams

- Defining and maintaining qualification matrices for platforms, optics, and software, ensuring readiness and reliability before production use

- Communicating technical findings and risks to both customer teams and Cisco stakeholders

- Elevating operational standards by developing evidence-driven processes that prevent customer-impacting issues

The team thrives on collaboration and technical depth, directly impacting customer satisfaction and the integrity of Cisco’s Data Center Solution offerings.

**Requirements:**

- Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, computer science, or a related field, with 12+ years' of experience in network engineering, systems validation, customer engineering, or network operations

- Experience with scalable data center architectures, including leaf-spine topologies, routing underlays, network overlays, redundancy, high availability, convergence, capacity planning, and failure-domain design

- Applied experience leading solution-level validation, design qualification, or deployment-readiness initiatives for complex data center environments

- Experience with network automation, including automated provisioning, configuration validation, test execution, telemetry collection, and operational workflow integration

- Experience with lab instrumentation, traffic generators, packet-capture tools, network test platforms, and performance-analysis tools

**Preferred Qualifications:**

- Proven ability to solve complex, multi-layer issues spanning hardware, software, protocols, optics, automation, and system-level interactions

- Strong technical leadership, multi-functional collaboration, and communication skills, with the ability to translate complex technical findings into clear risks and actionable recommendations

- Experience supporting cloud infrastructure or hyperscale cloud customers, with proficiency in IPv4/IPv6, Layer2 switching/design, Layer3 routing protocols, and network optics

- Familiarity with Cisco network platforms, automation, and telemetry systems, complemented by strong technical writing and customer-facing presentation skills

- Demonstrated ability to lead across organizational boundaries and global time zones, with a proactive approach to problem-solving and operational clarity

**What Cisco Offers:**

- Competitive salary: $186,900.00 to $267,700.00 per year

- Comprehensive benefits package, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) plan with Cisco matching contribution, paid parental leave, short and long-term disability coverage, and basic life insurance

- Paid time away, including 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

- Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer

- Opportunities for growth and professional development in a dynamic and innovative environment

## Skills

### Required
- network engineering
- systems validation
- customer engineering
- network operations
- scalable data center architectures
- network automation
- lab instrumentation

### Nice to have
- cloud infrastructure
- hyperscale cloud
- IPv4/IPv6
- Layer2 switching/design
- Layer3 routing protocols
- network optics
- Cisco network platforms

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