Software Engineering Technical Leader - Distributed Systems, Microservices, Cloud Native Architecture |10+ yrs

Meet the Team

Cisco Cloud Security enables you to securely adopt the cloud and better manage security for the way the world works today. It protects users against threats anywhere they access the internet and secures your data and applications in the cloud. You can also leverage the cloud to enhance security through simplified policy management and dynamic threat intelligence. With Cisco Cloud Security, you gain complete visibility into internet activity across cloud applications, all office locations, and roaming devices, plus faster threat detection and response. Cisco Cloud Security provides an effective security platform that is open, automated, and simple to use. And it’s backed by industry-leading threat information delivered by the Cisco Talos security intelligence and research group.

We have a highly scalable cloud infrastructure spread across 25 data centers where we run applications that operate at hyperscale - 100B+ requests per day from 65M daily active users.

Your Impact

• You will design, implement, and maintain services and applications in the Cisco Secure reporting data platform.
• You will participate in a globally distributed team of engineers that utilizes cloud platforms to deliver services.
• You will collaborate with engineering and product teams across the organization to build data and security products.

Minimum Qualifications

You’re a hands-on technical leader who can set direction for complex data infrastructure while staying close to design, implementation, and operations. You bring:

• 8–15 years of experience building, operating, and supporting distributed data infrastructure for stateful services and in driving c loud-native architecture.
• Deep expertise in the Kafka ecosystem, including Kafka Core, Kafka Streams, Kafka Connect, and Schema Registry.
• A track record of designing and developing scalable services and data applications, preferably in Go, Java, or Python.
• Experience with large, distributed databases and analytical workloads using technologies such as ClickHouse, Pinot, or Redshift.
• Experience with container technologies such as Docker or Kubernetes.
• The ability to guide architecture and technical decisions, balance short-term delivery with long-term platform health, and raise engineering standards across a team.
• Experience mentoring engineers and collaborating across teams to turn product and business needs into reliable technical solutions.
• Confidence working primarily from the command line and debugging systems in Linux environments.

Preferred Qualifications

We don’t expect you to know all these technologies, and we’re hoping for you to push us forward to better technologies wherever useful.

• Kafka ecosystem (Confluence certified preferred)
• Go, Java and Python
• Clickhouse or similar database technologies.
• Cloud native archiectture (AWS preferred)
• Linux

Why Cisco?

At Cisco, we’re revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era – and beyond. We’ve been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint.

Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you’ll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere.

We are Cisco, and our power starts with you.

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