Senior Technical Lead

Role Description

This role can be performed from any location within the United States.

We are a highly dynamic engineering organization that works on building software for workload security products that cater to highly complex and scalable customer environments to protect their crown jewel application workloads from increasingly complex threat vectors.

As a Senior Technical Lead, you will:

• Work with and provide technical leadership to a team of highly motivated engineers.
• Focus on improving Scale, Performance, Reliability, Robustness, and Security.
• Provide technical leadership and make architectural contributions in backend services that:
• Collect and process telemetry at scale from data sources in customer environments.
• React to changes in environment and render policies in a highly scalable manner to a large number of enforcement points.
• Implement API endpoints that need to respond with minimal latencies even when crunching large volumes of data.
• Be deployed in highly complex distributed system environments and involve failure modes unique to those environments.

Qualifications

• At least 8+ years' experience building software systems in one or more programming languages such as Go, C++, or Java.
• 3+ years' technical leadership experience in a software engineering environment.
• Agile experience.
• Bachelor's degree with 8 years of related experience, Master's with 6 years, PhD with 3 years, or equivalent combination of education and experience. In lieu of a degree, a minimum of 10 years of relevant professional experience.

Requirements

• Proficiency in Computer Science foundational areas, including algorithms, systems, databases, performance engineering, and security architecture.
• Schema/Data modeling design experience.
• Experience with large-scale event processing architectures.
• Experience in systems programming and performance engineering.
• Experience working with security architecture and database design.
• Kubernetes experience.
• Experience programming using cloud APIs for AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• A professional who embraces agile methodologies that involve rapid prototyping by feedback gathered from customers, peers, and technical solution architects, customer enablement engineers, and support engineers.
• A technically skilled leader who enjoys architecting, designing, analyzing, and brainstorming solutions that improve the product and produce customer-facing capabilities.

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.
• 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 determined by Cisco.
• Non-exempt employees receive 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year.
• Exempt employees participate in Cisco’s flexible vacation time off program.
• 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter.
• Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer.