Data Engineer, Telemetry Pipelines & Distributed Systems

Cisco Systems, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 168,000 - 245,000; Full time

Job summary

Cisco Systems, Inc. is seeking a Data Engineer to build and operate large-scale telemetry pipelines and storage systems, turning device data into reliable data products.

You will work on high-throughput ingestion and processing in Kubernetes environments. You will design scalable pipelines for petabyte-scale telemetry from millions of devices, implement robust observability with ELK and Grafana, and collaborate across teams to deliver secure, validated software that enables data-driven

Qualifications

• Experience building, operating, or debugging distributed systems that process large telemetry data daily.
• Production experience with Scala, C++, or Java.
• Designing and managing data pipelines using streaming or batch frameworks (Kafka, Spark, Flink).
• Deploying and maintaining containerized workloads on Kubernetes clusters.

Responsibilities

• Architect and operate scalable data pipelines ingesting petabyte-scale telemetry.
• Build high-performance distributed systems in Kubernetes environments.
• Establish observability using ELK and Grafana for proactive issue detection.
• Collaborate across product and engineering teams to deliver secure, validated data solutions.

Skills

Distributed systems

Backend services

Telemetry data

Scala

C++

Java

Kubernetes

Kafka

Spark

Flink

Terraform

Ansible

Elasticsearch

Grafana

Tools

Kafka

Spark

Flink

Kubernetes

Terraform

Ansible

Elasticsearch

Grafana

Job description

Cisco Systems, Inc. is seeking a Data Engineer to build and operate large-scale telemetry pipelines and storage systems, turning device data into reliable data products.

You will work on high-throughput ingestion and processing in Kubernetes environments. You will design scalable pipelines for petabyte-scale telemetry from millions of devices, implement robust observability with ELK and Grafana, and collaborate across teams to deliver secure, validated software that enables data-driven