Software Engineering Technical Leader
Cisco3 Locations$149k – $219kPosted 26 April 2026
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Develops software consistent with Cisco ‘Design Thinking Principles’ with a focus on simplification and UX (User Experience) at its core, using secure coding practices, ensuring user privacy, and following software development best practices. Partners with other teams including design and product management to create the right solution for the customers. Creates technical design documentation to be used by the team as well as contributing to user documentation to be used by end users. Debugs and addresses software issues during development and in production systems to support customers.
Brings
new ideas
for product innovation and
helps
improve software development processes.
What
You’ll
Do:
• Uses specialized
expertise
in one or more areas to interpret internal or external business issues and recommends best practices.
• Solves complex problems and takes abroad perspective to
identify
innovative
solutions. May
lead
small-to-medium features from technical design through completion.
• May lead projects that span multiple teams;
manage
workload and workstreams holistically.
• Influences a defined software engineering roadmap.
• May lead medium-to-large features from technical design through completion.
• Provides
expertise
in the development and implementation of the software development lifecycle, and agile engineering strategies across applicable teams and partners.
• Leads and mentors
others and
improves the technical design of solutions . Advocates
for new features within a product to address customer needs.
• Articulates design choices based on an expert understanding of market awareness, product adoption, and competition.
• Innovates new products to address unmet customer needs
• Influences and tracks metrics to measure success
• Writes functional clean code and unit tests at a level that sets the standard for coding across teams.
• Influences architectural decisions with a focus
on security ,
scalability y
and reliability.
• Contributes to threat modeling of a product.
• Proactively identifies,
prioritize s ,
and
resolves
risk and issues in production systems.
• Designs and implements robust monitoring tools that provide visibility and reliability and acts on the data and alerts to increase future performance.
• Leads postmortems and reviews root cause analysis, ensures on - call coverage.
• Expert on multiple functional components
• May contribute to knowledge sharing among the wider professional community with technical blogs or publications.
• Scopes work accurately and
provides
reliable estimates for project milestones and completion.
• Communicates delivery trade-offs and negotiates with cross - functional partners to
align on
direction and outcomes.
• Mentors peers or others on the team
•
Facilitates /encourages knowledge sharing in the team
Minimum Qualifications:
Bachelors
7
years of related experience, or Masters 6 years of related experience, or PhD 3 years of related experience.
Requires in-depth conceptual and practical knowledge in
data processing technologies
and knowledge of related technical job families; has worked extensively with
data processing or event-driven architecture
Demonstrated experience of shipping and supporting cloud-native services or on-premises software solutions, using object-oriented programming languages like
GoLang
OR
Java, C/C .
Experience leading the design and delivery of complex projects with a scope of 3 months or more, involving collaboration with
multiple
teams. Demonstrated ability to influence technical direction, drive consensus across multiple teams and stakeholders .
Proven ability to design, architect, and implement distributed systems, focusing on reliability, scalability, and performance. Deep understanding of distributed system concep ... (truncated, view full listing at source)
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