Software Engineering Technical Leader

Cisco

Confirmed live 2 days ago High trust

Quick summary

Work type
On-site
Location
Milpitas, CA
Salary
$186,900–$267,700 / yr
Employment
Full-time
Posted
3 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live 2 days ago

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Salary context

Above market

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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 288 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Software Engineering Technical Leader

The Software Engineering Technical Leader joins the Cisco Node Visuals team to build interactive network and geographic visualizations for enterprise products. Working as a forward-deployed engineer, you will lead architecture and delivery for secure, reusable visualization capabilities across cloud, on-premises, and air-gapped environments. Your daily responsibilities include developing high-performance 2D and 3D views, optimizing algorithms for topology layout, rendering, and spatial interaction, and setting engineering standards using performance benchmarks. You will utilize WebGL2, GPU-accelerated graphics, HTML Canvas, SVG, and shader programming while applying graph theory, linear algebra, and computational geometry. The role solves complex problems regarding large, dynamic datasets by creating tools for navigation and aggregation without external mapping services, requiring expertise in coordinate transformations, map projections, and spatial indexing.

What you'll do

  • Lead the architecture and delivery of secure, reusable visualization capabilities for Cisco enterprise products.
  • Build high-performance 2D and 3D network and geographic views for cloud and on-premises environments.
  • Develop and optimize algorithms for topology layout, rendering, animation, and spatial interaction for large datasets.
  • Set engineering standards and use performance benchmarks to verify rendering speed, memory use, and latency.
  • Mentor engineers and guide technical priorities through hands-on development and technical reviews.
  • Influence product strategy by contributing to Cisco’s intellectual-property portfolio and reusable frameworks.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor’s degree in any engineering discipline.
  • 7+ years of frontend engineering experience architecting and delivering web applications, libraries, or frameworks.
  • Hands-on experience with WebGL2, GPU-accelerated graphics, or comparable real-time rendering technologies.
  • Experience developing mapping, GIS, geospatial analytics, or location-based visualization software (preferred).
  • Experience designing performance-critical algorithms using graph theory, linear algebra, computational geometry, and mathematical optimization (preferred).
  • Experience with shader programming, graphics buffers, textures, batching, and GPU/CPU/memory/browser performance profiling (preferred).
  • Experience building reusable visualization frameworks or developer-facing APIs with HTML Canvas, SVG, and accessibility (preferred).
  • Experience owning technical architecture, mentoring engineers, and leading distributed or multidisciplinary teams (preferred).

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