Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Cisco is a leading technology company focused on revolutionizing data and infrastructure connectivity. The Backend Engineering Technical Leader will provide technical leadership to a team of engineers, working on solutions for workload security products to protect applications from complex threats.
Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership and make architectural contributions in backend services that 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
- Deploy in highly complex distributed system environments and involve failure modes unique to those environments
Skills
- 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. In lieu of a degree, a minimum of 10 years of relevant professional experience
- Proficiency in Computer Science foundational areas, including algorithms, systems, databases, performance engineering and security architecture
- Schema/Data modeling design experience
- Experience with large-scale event processing architectures
- Experience in systems programming and performance engineering
- Experience working with security architecture and database design
- Kubernetes experience
- Experience programming using cloud APIs for AWS, Azure, or GCP
- A professional who embraces agile methodologies that involve rapid prototyping by feedback gathered from customers, peers and technical solution architects, customer enablement engineers and support engineers
- A technically skilled leader who enjoys architecting, designing, analyzing, and brainstorming solutions that improve the product and produce customer-facing capabilities
Benefits
- Medical, dental and vision insurance
- A 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution
- Paid parental leave
- Short and long-term disability coverage
- Basic life insurance
- Employees may be eligible to receive grants of Cisco restricted stock units, which vest following continued employment with Cisco for defined periods of time
- 10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees
- 1 paid day off for employee’s birthday, paid year-end holiday shutdown, and 4 paid days off for personal wellness determined by Cisco
- Non-exempt employees** receive 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year, accrued at rate of 4.92 hours per pay period for full-time employees
- Exempt employees participate in Cisco’s flexible vacation time off program, which has no defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use (subject to availability and some business limitations)
- 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter, and up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward from one calendar year to the next
- Additional paid time away may be requested to deal with critical or emergency issues for family members
- Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer
- For non-sales roles, employees are also eligible to earn annual bonuses subject to Cisco’s policies
- Employees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, which is split between quota and non-quota components, subject to the applicable Cisco plan
- For quota-based sales roles on Cisco’s sales plan, the ranges provided in this posting include base pay and sales target incentive compensation combined
- Employees in Illinois, whether exempt or non-exempt, will participate in a unique time off program to meet local requirements
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