Cisco
Software Engineering Technical Leader
$166K–$308K
San Jose, California, US · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted Oct 1, 2026
- Experience
- Bachelor’s degree with 8+ years of related experience, Master’s degree with 6+ years, or PhD with 3+ years; also requires 7 years in each of the specified backend, database-backed services, distributed systems, and Kubernetes/CI/CD areas.
- Education
- Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD degree
About the job
Leads hands-on design, development, and operation of distributed storage and cloud-native services, from technical design through production support.
What you'll do
- Design, develop, deploy, and operate scalable distributed storage and key-value services across cloud and on-premises environments.
- Lead features and projects, contribute to architecture and engineering practices, and address production reliability, security, and operational issues.
- Mentor engineers and collaborate with cross-functional teams on technical decisions, delivery, and customer needs.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree with 8+ years, Master’s degree with 6+ years, or PhD with 3+ years of related experience.
- 7 years developing production backend services and versioned APIs in Go, C++, or another systems programming language.
- 7 years designing and operating production database-backed services using a graph, relational, or NoSQL database.
- 7 years designing production distributed systems and delivering and operating containerized services through CI/CD on Kubernetes.
Nice to have
- Experience designing scalable, highly available distributed storage and key-value services.
- Experience building cloud-native services using C++, Go, and Python.
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
C++, Go, Python, Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, GCP, CI/CD
AI focus
The role builds distributed storage and cloud-native services; the posting does not specify AI work.
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