Software Developer

105 Cisco Systems Canada Co.; Vancouver; On-site; CAD 182,000 - 254,000; Full time

Job summary

Cisco Systems Canada Co. is seeking a senior backend engineer to lead the design and delivery of services that automate order fulfillment and provisioning for Splunk customers globally.

You will own features end-to-end, coordinate with multiple teams, and push for reliability, security, and performance improvements across production systems. This role involves on-call responsibility, code reviews, and driving platform enhancements that speed delivery and scale operations in a large enterprise

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher with substantial software engineering experience.
• Experience building and operating services on cloud infrastructure in production environments.
• Experience coordinating across cross-functional teams and communicating progress and risks.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and delivery of backend services and APIs to automate order fulfillment and provisioning.
• Drive end-to-end features from design through production and post-launch operations.
• Participate in on-call rotation, lead postmortems, and drive reliability improvements.

Skills

End-to-end ownership

Cross-functional collaboration

On-call rotation

Reliability & security

Code reviews

Education

Bachelor’s degree + 7 years of related experience

Master’s + 4 years

PhD + 1 year

Tools

Go

Python

Cloud infrastructure

Distributed systems

Job description

Meet the Team

The application window is expected to close on: 11/04/2026

The Delivery Orchestration Platform (DOP) team is the engine behind how Splunk's products reach customers — we own the fulfillment and provisioning systems that turn a signed contract into a live Splunk product deployment. Our work sits at the heart of Splunk's go‑to‑market delivery pipeline, connecting the systems and teams that make customer onboarding happen reliably and at scale. We're a team of engineers who operate with high autonomy, take end‑to‑end ownership of our systems, and move fast without sacrificing reliability. Right now is an exciting time to join — we're actively modernizing our fulfillment architecture toward a next‑generation Order Management Platform that will reshape how Splunk delivers its entire product portfolio.

Your Impact

Lead the design and delivery of backend services and APIs that automate order fulfillment, provisioning workflows, and delivery orchestration for Splunk customers globally. Drive features end‑to‑end — from technical design through production — coordinating across teams to meet requirements and ship reliably. Conduct thorough code reviews and contribute to reliability, security, and operational excellence to keep our systems trustworthy and performant. Participate in on‑call rotation, lead postmortems, and drive systemic improvements that make our platform more resilient over time. Success looks like features that ship on schedule, systems that stay up, and a fulfillment platform that gets faster and more capable every quarter.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree + 7 years of related experience, or Master's + 4 years, or PhD + 1 year in software engineering or a related technical field
• Prior experience with backend technologies such as Go or Python, including building and operating distributed systems and APIs
• Prior experience leading projects end‑to‑end with minimal guidance, taking ownership from design through delivery and post‑launch operations
• Applied experience building and operating services on cloud infrastructure in a production environment
• Applied experience coordinating across cross‑functional teams, tracking milestones, and communicating progress and risks to stakeholders

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior experience with order management, entitlements, or provisioning systems in a SaaS or cloud environment
• Prior experience with Kubernetes‑native deployments and cloud‑native infrastructure patterns
• Prior experience mentoring — you give substantive code reviews and make the engineers around you better
• Applied experience operating with high autonomy where ownership is broad and you drive your own work forward
• Previous background with proactively identifying reliability gaps or technical debt and driving improvements without being asked

Why Cisco?

At Cisco, we’re revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era – and beyond. We’ve been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint. Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you’ll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere. We are Cisco, and our power starts with you.

Message to applicants applying to work in the U.S. and/or Canada

The starting salary range posted for this position is $130,400.00 to $181,400.00 and reflects the projected salary range for new hires in this position in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including incentive compensation*, equity, or benefits. Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location, market conditions, job‑related skillset, experience, qualifications, education, certifications, and/or training. The full salary range for certain locations is listed below. For locations not listed below, the recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.

• US employees are offered benefits, subject to Cisco’s plan eligibility rules, which include medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, paid parental leave, short and long‑term disability coverage, and basic life insurance.
• U.S. employees are eligible for paid time away as described below, subject to Cisco’s policies: 10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non‑exempt employees 1 paid day off for employee’s birthday, paid year‑end holiday shutdown, and 4 paid days off for personal wellness determined by Cisco.
• Non‑exempt employees receive 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year, accrued at rate of 4.92 hours per pay period for full‑time employees.
• Exempt employees participate in Cisco’s flexible vacation time off program, which has no defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use (subject to availability and some business limitations).
• 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter, and up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward from one calendar year to the next.
• Additional paid time away may be requested to deal with critical or emergency issues for family members.
• Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer.
• For non‑sales roles, employees are also eligible to earn annual bonuses subject to Cisco’s policies. Employees on sales plans earn performance‑based incentive pay on top of their base salary, which is split between quota and non‑quota components, subject to the applicable Cisco plan.
• For quota‑based incentive pay, Cisco typically pays as follows: .75% of incentive target for each 1% of revenue attainment up to 50% of quota; 1.5% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 50% and 75%; 1% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 75% and 100%; and once performance exceeds 100% attainment, incentive rates are at or above 1% for each 1% of attainment with no cap on incentive compensation.
• For non‑quota‑based sales performance elements such as strategic sales objectives, Cisco may pay 0% up to 125% of target.
• Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid.
• The applicable full salary ranges for this position, by specific state, are listed below:

• New York City Metro Area: $167,700.00 - $282,000.00
• Non‑Metro New York state & Washington state: $149,100.00 - $250,900.00
• * For quota‑based sales roles on Cisco’s sales plan, the ranges provided in this posting include base pay and sales target incentive compensation combined.
• ** Employees in Illinois, whether exempt or non‑exempt, will participate in a unique time off program to meet local requirements.

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