Description
We are seeking a highly skilled Software Engineer to join our Enterprise Integrated Systems team. As a hybrid role, you will work both onsite and remotely, collaborating with our team to develop next-generation platform capabilities that integrate Splunk across Cisco's enterprise software portfolio.
Your Impact:
- Lead the architecture, design, and implementation of complex platform capabilities spanning multiple products and engineering teams.
- Drive scalable, reusable, and maintainable software designs that improve product quality, reliability, and customer experience.
- Partner with Product Managers, Architects, and Development teams to shape technical roadmaps and influence product direction.
- Own critical subsystems throughout their lifecycle,from design through production support and continuous improvement.
- Drive engineering excellence through design reviews, code reviews, automated testing, observability, CI/CD, and performance engineering.
- Mentor engineers and raise the technical bar through coaching, design guidance, and technical leadership.
- Lead technical investigations, performance optimization, and root cause analysis for complex customer issues.
- Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend architectural improvements that enhance scalability, security, and developer productivity.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Expert-level proficiency in Go and Python with a track record of delivering production-quality software.
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
- 7+ years of professional software engineering experience building enterprise-grade software.
- Experience designing distributed systems, REST APIs, microservices, and containerized applications using Docker and Kubernetes.
- Strong experience with CI/CD, Git, automated testing frameworks, performance benchmarking, and observability platforms such as Splunk, AppDynamics, or ThousandEyes.
- Strong understanding of software architecture, scalability, reliability, Linux internals, and performance engineering.
- Experience leading technical design discussions and influencing architecture across multiple engineering teams.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with Splunk Enterprise, Enterprise Security (ES), ITSI, or similar observability platforms.
- Experience building software for on-premises and air-gapped enterprise deployments.
- Experience with infrastructure automation tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, or CloudFormation.
- Experience with Kubernetes Operators, distributed storage systems, or enterprise platform software.
- Experience with AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.
- Experience contributing to open-source projects.
- Experience working directly with enterprise customers.
- Demonstrated mentoring and technical leadership across multiple teams.
Why Cisco? At Cisco, we're revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era – and beyond. We've been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint.
Salary Information: The starting salary range posted for this position is $139,300.00 to $203,600.00 and reflects the projected salary range for new hires in this position in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including incentive compensation*, equity, or benefits.