Technical Lead, Backend Services — Scale & Security

Cisco Systems, Inc; Zürich; On-site; CHF 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Cisco Systems, Inc is seeking a Technical Lead for backend services in Zürich. You will guide a team of engineers to build scalable, secure workload protection solutions and contribute architectural leadership across distributed systems. The role focuses on performance, reliability, and policy-driven enforcement in complex environments.

You will drive telemetry collection, design low-latency APIs, and navigate large-scale data processing while collaborating across product and security teams.

Qualifications

• 9+ years of software development experience in Go, C++, or Java.
• Technical leadership experience in a software engineering environment.
• Experience with Agile methodologies.
• Bachelor's degree with 11+ years, Master's 9+ years, PhD 4+ years, or equivalent; 10 years if no degree.

Responsibilities

• Lead backend services with a focus on scale, performance, reliability and security.
• Provide architectural leadership to a team of engineers delivering secure workloads.
• Collect and process telemetry at scale from customer environments.
• Implement API endpoints with minimal latency for large data volumes.

Skills

Go

C++

Java

Technical leadership

Agile

Education

Bachelor's degree + 11+ years experience

Master's degree + 9+ years

PhD + 4+ years

Equivalent combination of education

Tools

Kubernetes

Cloud APIs (AWS/Azure/GCP)

Job description

Cisco Systems, Inc is seeking a Technical Lead for backend services in Zürich. You will guide a team of engineers to build scalable, secure workload protection solutions and contribute architectural leadership across distributed systems. The role focuses on performance, reliability, and policy-driven enforcement in complex environments.

You will drive telemetry collection, design low-latency APIs, and navigate large-scale data processing while collaborating across product and security teams.