Senior Backend Services Engineering Manager

577 Cisco Systems International SARL; Zürich; On-site; CHF 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Cisco is seeking a Senior Technical Lead to drive architecture and leadership for backend services focused on workload security and AI infrastructure. You will guide engineers to scale telemetry collection, policy rendering, and API performance across distributed environments.

The role emphasizes technical leadership, system design, and collaboration across teams to deliver robust security solutions. A strong background in Go/C++/Java and cloud-native systems is essential.

Qualifications

• 8+ years building software systems in Go, C++, or Java.
• 3+ years technical leadership experience in a software engineering environment.
• Experience with Agile methodologies.
• Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD in a related field, or equivalent experience.
• In lieu of a degree, 10 years of relevant professional experience.

Responsibilities

• Collect telemetry at scale from data sources across customer environments.
• Render policies at scale to a large number of enforcement points.
• Implement API endpoints with minimal latency during high data volumes.
• Work in highly complex distributed systems and prepare for unique failure modes.

Skills

Go

C++

Java

Technical leadership

Agile methodologies

System design

Kubernetes

Cloud APIs (AWS/Azure/GCP)

Education

Bachelor's degree with 8 years of related experience

Master's degree with 6 years

PhD with 3 years

Equivalent experience

In lieu of a degree, 10 years of relevant professional experience

Tools

Kubernetes

Cloud APIs (AWS/Azure/GCP)

Job description

Cisco is seeking a Senior Technical Lead to drive architecture and leadership for backend services focused on workload security and AI infrastructure. You will guide engineers to scale telemetry collection, policy rendering, and API performance across distributed environments.

The role emphasizes technical leadership, system design, and collaboration across teams to deliver robust security solutions. A strong background in Go/C++/Java and cloud-native systems is essential.