Staff Software Engineer
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This role pays less than 78% of similar roles. Most pay $192,510–$250,000 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $187k versus about $221k for comparable roles.
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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 196 open roles on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs $167,700–$245,200 across 196 roles with salary data.
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Staff Software Engineer The Staff Software Engineer joins the team responsible for building and operating large-scale services that orchestrate updates and changes across customer environments in Splunk Cloud. This role involves owning features end-to-end through the full software development lifecycle, including requirements gathering, technical design, implementation, testing, automation, deployment, and production ownership. The engineer will build and maintain highly scalable distributed systems to handle large volumes of data while resolving pre-production bottlenecks and production issues. Key technologies include Go, Python, Java, Kubernetes, and microservices-based architectures within AWS, GCP, or Azure environments. Additionally, the role involves working with LLMs, RAG pipelines, MCP, and multi-agent frameworks. The position focuses on solving complex problems related to system reliability, scalability, and automation for mission-critical systems that manage distributed file systems, concurrency control, consistency models, and RESTful API communication paradigms.
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