Software Engineering Technical Leader

Cisco is a company innovating in data and infrastructure connectivity and security, providing solutions that power integration between physical and digital worlds with a focus on security, visibility, and insights.

• Bachelor's degree plus 8 years related experience or Master's degree plus 6 years related experience.
• Deep hands-on experience designing, building, and operating microservices in production.
• Commercial experience developing production systems in Go.
• Working proficiency in Python for platform, tooling, or service code.
• Strong experience with Linux/Unix and expert-level Kubernetes including resilient, highly available architectures.
• Practical experience with Ansible and another infrastructure-as-code technology (Terraform, Puppet, Chef, or Helm) in a Git-based workflow.
• Solid understanding of secure and reliable communication between distributed systems connecting on-premises software to cloud services.
• Ability to scope work, provide reliable estimates, translate business needs to technical direction, and recommend industry standards.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Exposure to edge or on-premises deployments including air-gapped or restricted-network setups.
• Experience leading small-to-medium features from technical build through completion.
• Ability to mentor peers and facilitate knowledge sharing.
• Experience leading postmortems, root cause analysis, and managing on-call coverage.
• Strong communication skills for negotiation with cross-functional partners.
• Experience influencing architectural decisions focusing on security, scalability, and reliability.
• Fluency with agentic AI development tools.
• Familiarity with FIPS-mode cryptography, hardened Linux baselines, or compliance-driven engineering.
• Working knowledge of Java to maintain existing platform services.

• Design and build microservices and Linux components that install, configure, and run the platform on Kubernetes.
• Develop production services in Go and Python managing platform lifecycle and cloud connections.
• Automate build, installation, and upgrades using Ansible across various Linux and Kubernetes environments.
• Improve secure connectivity, message routing, and data transfer between on-premises platform and cloud.
• Partner with design and product management to deliver customer-centric solutions.
• Create technical design and end-user documentation.
• Debug and resolve issues in development and production.
• Drive product innovation and improve software building processes.