Technical Lead - Remote Secure Workload Observability & Scale

Cisco Systems, Inc; Milpitas (CA); Remote; USD 187,000 - 268,000; Full time

Job summary

Cisco Systems, Inc is seeking a Technical Lead to guide a team building workload security software and API services that scale to large customer environments. You will provide architectural leadership and hands-on implementation in backend services, focusing on scale, performance, reliability, robustness, and security.

You will mentor engineers, drive architecture decisions, and collaborate across squads to ship secure, high-performance solutions using Go, C++, or Java, with Kubernetes and cloud

Qualifications

• At least 6+ years' experience building software systems in one or more programming languages such as Go, C++, or Java.
• Technical leadership experience in a software engineering environment
• Agile experience
• Bachelor's degree with 6 years of related experience, Master's with 4 years, PhD with 2 years, or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Responsibilities

• Collect and process telemetry at scale from data sources in customer environments
• React to changes in environment and render policies in highly scalable manner to large number of enforcement points
• Implement API endpoints that need to respond with minimal latencies even when crunching large volumes of data.
• Will be deployed in highly complex distributed system environments and involve failure modes unique to those environments.

Skills

Go

C++

Java

Technical leadership

Agile experience

Education

Bachelor's degree with 6 years related experience

Master's with 4 years

PhD with 2 years

Tools

Kubernetes

Cloud APIs (AWS/Azure/GCP)

Job description

Cisco Systems, Inc is seeking a Technical Lead to guide a team building workload security software and API services that scale to large customer environments. You will provide architectural leadership and hands-on implementation in backend services, focusing on scale, performance, reliability, robustness, and security.

You will mentor engineers, drive architecture decisions, and collaborate across squads to ship secure, high-performance solutions using Go, C++, or Java, with Kubernetes and cloud