Backend Engineer - Distributed Ingestion Pipelines (Remote)

Cisco Systems, Inc.; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 149,000 - 251,000; Full time

Job summary

Cisco Systems, Inc. is seeking an experienced backend engineer to drive the long-term technical strategy for ingestion pipelines, ensuring industry-leading performance and scalability.

You will lead design and implementation of mission-critical distributed systems powering the Splunk platform, partnering with product and platform leadership to align engineering with business needs. You will elevate engineering standards, promote best practices in system design and code quality, and champion

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 7+ years of backend software development experience with a focus on large-scale distributed systems.
• Expert-level proficiency in Go or Java with deep concurrency and memory management knowledge.
• Experience architecting, deploying, and scaling high-volume data processing pipelines.
• Experience with cloud-native infrastructure including Kubernetes, microservices, and distributed storage.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the long-term technical strategy for ingestion pipelines for performance, elasticity, and scalability.
• Lead the design and implementation of distributed systems impacting the Splunk platform.
• Collaborate with product/platform leadership to align engineering initiatives with business requirements.
• Elevate engineering standards for system design, code quality, and operations.

Skills

Go

Java

Distributed systems

Backend development

Kubernetes

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS / related field

Tools

Kubernetes

Microservices

Distributed storage systems

Job description

Cisco Systems, Inc. is seeking an experienced backend engineer to drive the long-term technical strategy for ingestion pipelines, ensuring industry-leading performance and scalability.

You will lead design and implementation of mission-critical distributed systems powering the Splunk platform, partnering with product and platform leadership to align engineering with business needs. You will elevate engineering standards, promote best practices in system design and code quality, and champion