Staff Data Platform Engineer — Scale & Resilience (Tue/Thu On-site)

020 Cisco Systems, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); Híbrido; USD 187 000 - 268 000; Tempo integral

Resumo da oferta

Cisco Systems, Inc. is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the Data & Scalability Platform in a hybrid role. You will own the architecture, scalability, and cost of the data plane, guiding multi‑quarter technical direction and setting platform standards.

Lead cross‑team design reviews, performance tooling, and observability, partnering with product teams to deliver scalable solutions. This role requires strong leadership, deep experience in distributed data systems, and proficiency with cloud

Qualificações

• Bachelor's degree or higher in CS or related field; strong data backend experience.
• 6+ years leading data-intensive backend services and platforms.
• Experience designing scalable distributed systems and modern software stacks.
• Strong cloud, containerization, and observability experience.

Responsabilidades

• Define multi-quarter technical roadmap for the data platform (storage, streaming, compute, tooling).
• Lead architecture and evolution of the data plane; set standards and enforce them.
• Drive capacity planning, performance modeling, and define SLOs for data services.

Conhecimentos

Technical leadership

Distributed systems

Capacity planning

Mentoring engineers

Formação académica

Bachelor's in CS

Master's in CS

PhD

Ferramentas

Kubernetes

AWS

GCP

PostgreSQL

Descrição da oferta de emprego

Cisco Systems, Inc. is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the Data & Scalability Platform in a hybrid role. You will own the architecture, scalability, and cost of the data plane, guiding multi‑quarter technical direction and setting platform standards.

Lead cross‑team design reviews, performance tooling, and observability, partnering with product teams to deliver scalable solutions. This role requires strong leadership, deep experience in distributed data systems, and proficiency with cloud