Software Engineering Technical Leader

Cisco

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Quick summary

Work type
Hybrid
Location
San Jose, CA
Salary
$186,900–$267,700 / yr
Employment
Full-time
Posted
5 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live today
Closes
Dec 28, 2026

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Salary context

Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

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This role $227k
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This role pays more than 74% of similar roles. Most pay $185,500–$230,625 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $227k versus about $208k for comparable roles.

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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 237 open roles on FindRole.

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At a glance

TL;DR · Software Engineering Technical Leader

As a Software Engineering Technical Leader, you will join the team responsible for designing, developing, and operating highly scalable, reliable, and secure distributed storage services that power cloud-native applications. You will provide technical leadership while remaining hands-on to build and manage distributed storage and key-value services across on-premises and multi-cloud environments including AWS, Azure, and GCP. Your daily responsibilities include making architectural decisions, leading features from design through production validation, and establishing engineering practices like secure coding and robust monitoring. You will work with C++, Go, Python, and Kubernetes to solve complex problems regarding consistency, replication, partitioning, and failure recovery. The role focuses on the technical challenge of building resilient infrastructure for graph and structured-storage services while ensuring high availability and operational excellence through proactive risk resolution and root-cause analysis in containerized environments.

What you'll do

  • Design, develop, and operate scalable distributed storage and key-value services in cloud and on-premise environments.
  • Build cloud-native services using C++, Go, and Python within Kubernetes and containerized environments.
  • Lead features from technical design through implementation, testing, deployment, and production validation.
  • Develop secure, maintainable production code and unit tests while establishing engineering best practices.
  • Contribute to architectural decisions regarding security, scalability, reliability, and user experience.
  • Manage monitoring and observability capabilities to improve service performance and reliability.
  • Lead postmortems and root-cause analysis to drive durable corrective actions for production issues.
  • Mentor engineers through code reviews, design sessions, and technical guidance.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor's degree with 8+ years experience, Master's with 6+ years, or PhD with 3+ years of related experience.
  • 7 years of experience developing production backend services and versioned APIs in Go, C++, or another systems programming language.
  • 7 years of experience designing and operating production database-backed services using graph, relational, or NoSQL databases.
  • 7 years of experience designing production distributed systems involving consistency, replication, partitioning, routing, or failure recovery.
  • 7 years of experience delivering and operating containerized services through CI/CD on Kubernetes in public-cloud or on-premises environments.
  • Experience designing and developing scalable, highly available distributed storage and key-value services (preferred).
  • Experience building and enhancing cloud-native services using C++, Go, and Python (preferred).
  • Experience contributing to service architecture, technical design, and implementation decisions (preferred).

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