Cisco
Lead Software Engineer, Account Management-ThousandEyes(Hybrid)
$166K–$308K
San Francisco, California, US +2 · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted Oct 10, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco, California, US
Milpitas, California, US
Fremont, California, US - Experience
- Bachelor’s + 8 years, Master’s + 6 years, or PhD + 3 years of software engineering experience.
- Education
- Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD; the posting does not state an equivalent-experience alternative.
About the job
Leads technical direction and architecture for ThousandEyes’ Account Management Platform, delivering secure, scalable services and customer-facing applications for identities, access, entitlements, and contracts.
What you'll do
- Guide architecture and lead improvements to platform reliability, security, scalability, cost efficiency, and developer productivity.
- Lead initiatives such as web application migrations, API and workflow modernization, and asynchronous service decoupling.
- Coordinate across stakeholders, mentor engineers, and raise engineering standards.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s + 8 years, Master’s + 6 years, or PhD + 3 years of software engineering experience.
- Experience designing, deploying, and maintaining solutions using Java, Kotlin, or Scala.
- Experience designing and operating distributed systems integrating with identity and access management, including microservices and APIs.
- Experience leading cross-functional technical initiatives, architecture design, mentorship, and production software delivery in an Agile/Scrum framework.
Nice to have
- IAM concepts including authentication, authorization, single sign-on, role-based access control, and identity lifecycle management.
- IAM protocols and standards: OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect (OIDC), SAML, and SCIM.
Pay
$186,900.00 to $267,700.00 USD base salary; $186,900.00 - $307,800.00 USD base salary (New York City Metro Area); $166,300.00 - $274,100.00 USD base salary (Non-Metro New York state & Washington state)
Tools
Java, Kotlin, Scala, OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect (OIDC), SAML, SCIM
AI focus
The role supports an AI-powered digital experience assurance platform; no specific AI development work is stated.
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