Senior Software Engineer, Data Engineering
About The Position
The Cisco Network Platform processes telemetry from more than 25 million devices worldwide, ingesting petabytes of data every day. This data powers critical network experiences, operational insights, and customer-facing capabilities across Cisco’s platform. We’re looking for a Data Engineer to help build and operate the large-scale systems that make this possible. You’ll work on high-throughput data ingestion, processing, and storage systems that turn raw device telemetry into reliable, useful data products. This is an opportunity to solve distributed-systems challenges at meaningful scale alongside engineers across the organization.
Requirements
- Experience building, operating, or debugging distributed systems or backend services that process at least 1TB of telemetry data daily.
- Programming experience using Scala, C++, or Java within a production environment.
- Experience designing and managing data pipelines applying streaming or batch processing frameworks such as Kafka, Spark, or Flink.
- Experience deploying and maintaining containerized workloads on Kubernetes clusters in a production environment.
- Experience with Terraform, Ansible, Elasticsearch, or Grafana for automating infrastructure and monitoring workflows.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with real-time streaming or compute technologies such as Kafka, Flink, Spark, or similar platforms.
- Familiarity with network telemetry, networking protocols, or large fleet-management systems.
- Experience with SQL, distributed data stores or operating cloud-native services in production.
- Contributions to open-source projects, personal systems projects, or other evidence of technical curiosity.
- A pragmatic, organized approach to software quality, testing, and operational ownership, with strong problem-solving skills and enthusiasm for working with complex systems at scale.
Responsibilities
- Architect and operate scalable data pipelines capable of ingesting petabyte-scale telemetry from over 25 million network devices to drive global operational insights.
- Engineer resilient, high-performance distributed systems within Kubernetes environments, directly impacting the availability and reliability of critical network infrastructure.
- Collaborate across product and engineering teams to translate complex data requirements into dependable solutions that empower data-driven decision-making.
- Establish robust observability standards using ELK and Grafana to proactively identify issues and streamline system recovery.
- Accelerate the entire development lifecycle by integrating AI-assisted engineering tools, ensuring that every deployment meets rigorous standards for security, validation, and design excellence.
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
- grants of Cisco restricted stock units
- 10 paid holidays per full calendar year
- 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees
- 1 paid day off for employee’s birthday
- paid year-end holiday shutdown
- 4 paid days off for personal wellness
- 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year (non-exempt employees)
- flexible vacation time off program (exempt employees)
- 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter
- 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
- annual bonuses (for non-sales roles)
- performance-based incentive pay (for sales roles)
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
