Senior Data Engineer: Petabyte Telemetry Pipelines

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

Job summary

Cisco Network Platform is seeking a Data Engineer to build and operate large-scale data ingestion, processing, and storage systems that turn telemetry into reliable data products. You will work on petabyte-scale telemetry from millions of devices and help drive global operational insights.

You will partner with product and engineering teams in Kubernetes environments, implement robust observability with ELK and Grafana, and ensure security and design excellence across deployments.

Qualifications

• Experience building, operating, or debugging distributed systems or backend services that process at least 1TB of telemetry data daily.
• Programming experience using Scala, C++, or Java within a production environment.
• Experience designing and managing data pipelines applying streaming or batch processing frameworks such as Kafka, Spark, or Flink.
• Experience deploying and maintaining containerized workloads on Kubernetes clusters in a production environment.
• Experience with Terraform, Ansible, Elasticsearch, or Grafana for automating infrastructure and monitoring workflows.

Responsibilities

• Architect and operate scalable data pipelines capable of ingesting petabyte-scale telemetry from over 25 million network devices to drive global operational insights.
• Engineer resilient, high-performance distributed systems within Kubernetes environments.
• Collaborate across product and engineering teams to translate complex data requirements into dependable solutions.
• Establish robust observability standards using ELK and Grafana to proactively identify issues and streamline system recovery.
• Accelerate the development lifecycle by integrating AI-assisted engineering tools, ensuring security and design excellence.

Skills

Distributed systems

Scala

C++

Java

Kafka

Spark

Flink

Kubernetes

Terraform

Ansible

Elasticsearch

Grafana

Tools

Kubernetes

Job description

Cisco Network Platform is seeking a Data Engineer to build and operate large-scale data ingestion, processing, and storage systems that turn telemetry into reliable data products. You will work on petabyte-scale telemetry from millions of devices and help drive global operational insights.

You will partner with product and engineering teams in Kubernetes environments, implement robust observability with ELK and Grafana, and ensure security and design excellence across deployments.