Software Engineering Technical Leader

Role Description

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

As a Technical Lead, you will work with and provide technical leadership to a team of highly motivated engineers working on solutions to ship or deploy for our customers, with a focus on improving:

• Scale
• Performance
• Reliability
• Robustness
• Security

In this role you’ll 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 highly scalable manner to large number of enforcement points
• Implement API endpoints that need to respond with minimal latencies even when crunching large volumes of data
• Will be deployed in highly complex distributed system environments and involve failure modes unique to those environments

Qualifications

• At least 6+ years' experience building software systems in one or more programming languages such as Go, C++, or Java
• Technical leadership experience in a software engineering environment
• Agile experience
• Bachelor's degree with 6 years of related experience, Master's with 4 years, PhD with 2 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
• 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