Senior Data Platform Engineer

Cisco Systems; Olympia (WA); On-site; USD 168,000 - 245,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) matching

Paid parental leave

Short and long-term disability

Job summary

Cisco is reimagining how IT infrastructure is managed through secure, cloud-managed solutions. The Network Platform Data Science team builds trusted data foundations and scalable pipelines to enable AI-enabled decisions across engineering and product teams.

You will define data quality, lineage, semantics, access controls, and cost management, while leading incident investigations and implementing state-of-the-art data context layers for reliable analytics.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree + 7 years of related experience, or Masters 3+ years of related experience, or PHD +1 year of related experience
• 5+ years advanced SQL including data modeling, complex transformations, and query performance tuning
• 5+ years Python building production data pipelines/services with automated testing and maintainable code
• 3+ years of Snowflake building, optimizing, and operating production data workloads (Postgres experience is a plus)
• Experience with distributed processing and orchestration (e.g., Spark and Airflow/Glue or equivalent) plus engineering practices across CI/CD, access controls, data quality, observability, incident response, or cost management

Responsibilities

• Set technical direction for reliable, scalable batch and streaming pipelines and data products across structured and unstructured data
• Define and improve expectations for data quality, freshness, availability, observability, recovery, and cost
• Lead production incident investigations to deliver lasting fixes
• Build and evolve a trusted, machine-readable data context layer integrated with catalog/governance systems
• Apply AI and agentic workflows to data engineering needs, including pipeline development, validation, and bug triage

Skills

SQL

Python

Data modeling

Query performance tuning

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Master’s degree

PhD

Tools

Snowflake

Postgres

Spark

Airflow

ETL pipelines

Job description

Cisco is reimagining how IT infrastructure is managed through secure, cloud-managed solutions. The Network Platform Data Science team builds trusted data foundations and scalable pipelines to enable AI-enabled decisions across engineering and product teams.

You will define data quality, lineage, semantics, access controls, and cost management, while leading incident investigations and implementing state-of-the-art data context layers for reliable analytics.