Senior Staff Engineer, Cloud & Distributed Systems

Cisco Systems, Inc; Denver (CO); On-site; USD 152,000 - 222,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

401(k) with match

Parental leave

Disability coverage

RSUs eligibility

Job summary

Cisco Systems, Inc is seeking a senior software engineer to own features across the full software lifecycle for Splunk Cloud-related services. You will design scalable distributed systems, collaborate with product, SRE, and cross-functional teams, and participate in on-call rotations to ensure reliability and customer trust.

The role emphasizes hands-on leadership, performance optimization, and mentoring junior engineers in a dynamic cloud environment with AWS/GCP/Azure across multiple regions.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience with at least one language (Go, Python, or Java).
• 5+ years designing and implementing distributed systems with API communication (REST).
• Experience with scalability, performance, and reliability of large services.

Responsibilities

• Own features end-to-end across the full software lifecycle for cloud services.
• Translate customer needs into robust technical solutions with trade-offs.
• Design and maintain scalable distributed systems for large data volumes.
• Mentor engineers and participate in on-call rotations.

Skills

Go/Python/Java

Distributed systems

REST APIs

CI/CD pipelines

Kubernetes

Public cloud (AWS/GCP/Azure)

Observability tools

LLMs/RAG pipelines

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering or equivalent

Job description

Cisco Systems, Inc is seeking a senior software engineer to own features across the full software lifecycle for Splunk Cloud-related services. You will design scalable distributed systems, collaborate with product, SRE, and cross-functional teams, and participate in on-call rotations to ensure reliability and customer trust.

The role emphasizes hands-on leadership, performance optimization, and mentoring junior engineers in a dynamic cloud environment with AWS/GCP/Azure across multiple regions.