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$187k
versus about
$178k
for comparable roles.
Based on 240 similar postings.
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About Cisco
Cisco Systems is the world''s leading networking technology company, designing and manufacturing networking hardware, telecommunications equipment, and cybersecurity solutions for businesses and governments. Industry: Networking Technology & Cybersecurity
Cisco currently has
307 open roles
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Listed pay typically runs
$167,700–$245,000
across 224 roles with salary data.
The Software Engineering Technical Leader - BackEnd joins the Customer Experience engineering organization to serve as a principal technical authority for enterprise AI and cloud-native platforms. This role involves defining multi-year roadmaps, designing multi-tenant cloud system topologies, and architecting foundational AI applications including distributed Retrieval-Augmented Generation, agentic workflows, and multi-modal LLM orchestrations. You will build fault-tolerant, high-throughput distributed systems and enforce zero-trust security standards. Key technologies include Python, Kubernetes, Docker, Apache Kafka, Redis, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, Cassandra, gRPC, REST, and GraphQL. You will also utilize HashiCorp Vault, OAuth2/OIDC, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, and Grafana. The work focuses on solving complex technical challenges by establishing company-wide standards for concurrency control, data persistence, and observability within a high-scale, multi-region hybrid data environment.
Python
Go
Golang
AWS
Azure
GCP
Splunk Query Language (SPL)
distributed systems
CI/CD
System Design
Databases
Query Optimization
Claude
Codex
WPT
Observability