Technical Leader, Software Engineer (AI Canvas)

Cisco

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Remote, USA · Milpitas, US Posted 17 days ago $183,800–$263,600 / year
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At a glance

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TL;DR

As a Technical Leader on Cisco’s AI Software and Platform team, you will lead the design and evolution of backend services for AI Canvas, AI Assistant, and other AI-powered products across multiple business units. Your day-to-day responsibilities include guiding architecture decisions, scaling systems to support millions of users, integrating with LLM platforms like Azure OpenAI and AWS Bedrock, and ensuring system reliability through observability practices. You will work closely with engineering, product, and SRE teams to build asynchronous processing pipelines using tools such as Temporal and modern streaming systems. Required skills include 10+ years of backend software engineering experience, proficiency in Python, and direct experience scaling distributed systems. Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools like Cursor or Codex is also essential for evolving our SDLC practices.

Skills

Python Kubernetes Temporal Airflow Azure OpenAI AWS Bedrock CI/CD Metrics Tracing Logging Cloud-Native Technologies Modern AI-Assisted Development Tools Cursor Codex Claude Code LLM APIs

What you'll do

  • Lead the architecture and design of backend services for AI-powered platforms.
  • Design and scale systems to support millions of monthly active users reliably.
  • Guide integration with LLM platforms like Azure OpenAI and AWS Bedrock.
  • Mentor engineers and lead technical discussions on system reliability and observability.
  • Build asynchronous processing pipelines using tools such as Temporal and Airflow.

What we're looking for

  • 10+ years of experience in backend software engineering with technical leadership roles.
  • Direct experience scaling systems to multi-million monthly active users (MAU).
  • Experience building AI or LLM-powered applications and integrating with platforms like Azure OpenAI and AWS Bedrock.
  • Proficiency in Python, asynchronous programming, concurrency, and workflow orchestration tools like Temporal.
  • Strong understanding of cloud-native technologies such as Kubernetes and modern CI/CD practices.
  • Expertise in production system operations including observability, metrics, tracing, and logging.
  • Experience using AI-assisted development tools like Cursor, Codex, or Claude Code for structured development environments.

Market check

Salary context

This $183,800–$263,600 range sits above 66% of similar postings on FindRole.

Peer median band

$163,750–$237,600

Median floor and ceiling across peers.

Typical midpoint (25–75%)

$165,852–$246,150

Middle half of comparable postings.

Based on 240 comparable postings.

* 240 is the maximum number of comparable postings sampled.

Employer

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 103 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $165,000–$241,400 across 103 roles with salary data.

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