Software Technical Leader, Remote, Canada

Cisco Systems, Inc; United States; Remote; USD 98,000 - 133,000; Full time

Job summary

Cisco Systems, Inc is seeking a senior software engineer to build and operate full-stack software that brings network-device capabilities into a centralized management dashboard. The role spans architecture, implementation, production release, and ongoing reliability for distributed services, with ownership of customer-facing features and collaboration across engineering and product teams.

Responsibilities include designing scalable services, improving reliability with testing and telemetry, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant technical field with 12+ years of related experience.
• Master's degree with 8+ years of experience.
• Doctorate with 5+ years of experience.

Responsibilities

• Design and build scalable services and user-facing features across the software stack.
• Improve reliability and performance through testing, telemetry, and alerting.
• Own work from design through safe production rollout using feature flags or A/B testing.
• Make architectural and system-design decisions for complex engineering problems.
• Collaborate with engineering managers, product managers, and partner teams to set direction around technical and business priorities.
• Resolve defects, networking issues, and customer-reported problems, while coaching other engineers.

Skills

Web back ends (Ruby/Go/Python)

Distributed systems design

Agile software development

Feature flags / A/B testing

Mentoring / coaching

Education

Bachelor's degree in a relevant technical field

Master's degree in a related field

Doctorate (PhD) in related field

Job description

Role overview

Build and operate full-stack software that brings network-device capabilities into a centralized management dashboard. The role spans architecture, implementation, production release, and ongoing reliability for distributed services, with ownership of customer-facing features and collaboration across engineering and product teams.

Responsibilities

• Design and build scalable services and user-facing features across the software stack.
• Improve reliability and performance through testing, telemetry, and alerting.
• Own work from initial design through safe production rollout, using techniques such as feature flags and controlled experiments.
• Make architectural and system-design decisions for complex engineering problems.
• Work with engineering managers, product managers, and partner teams to set direction around technical and business priorities.
• Resolve defects, networking issues, and customer-reported problems, while coaching other engineers.

Requirements

• A bachelor's degree in a relevant technical field plus at least 12 years of related experience, a master's degree plus eight years, or a doctorate plus five years.
• Professional experience building web back ends with languages such as Ruby, Go, or Python, or comparable technologies.
• Experience designing system architecture and making technical tradeoffs.
• Experience delivering software safely to customers, including use of feature flags or A/B testing.
• Experience coaching teammates and working in an agile engineering environment.
• Ability to solve open-ended problems across the software stack.

Nice to have

• Experience with networking equipment, network emulation or simulation, or tools for modeling network environments.
• Background in systems software or large-scale distributed networking solutions.
• Experience collaborating across disciplines or geographically distributed teams.

Benefits and work setup

• Remote role based in Canada.