Software Technical Leader

Cisco

5d•Remote

About The Position

Cisco's Splunk Data Management organization owns the cloud-native services that help customers bring critical machine data into Splunk reliably, securely, and at scale. Our team builds and operates a hosted data ingestion platform used to connect cloud data sources, manage collection workflows, and deliver high-volume customer data into Splunk. The services are written primarily in Go, run on Kubernetes, and span distributed service architecture, secure data movement, customer onboarding, and operational tooling across many regions. Production ownership includes participation in the team's on-call rotation. We are looking for a hands-on senior engineer who can serve as the team's technical leader: setting architecture, raising engineering quality, mentoring others, and going deep in code and production systems.

Requirements

Bachelors + 8 years experience , professional software engineering, including ownership of production cloud services or distributed data systems.
3+ years of professional Go/Golang development experience is required, with a record of delivering maintainable production services.
Experience designing and building scalable distributed cloud-native architectures for SaaS or data platforms, with attention to throughput, latency, resilience, cost, and operability.
Experience with distributed systems fundamentals such as concurrency, state management, leader election, scheduling, fault tolerance, retries, and eventual consistency.
Hands-on experience building and operating containerized services on Kubernetes, including CI/CD, observability, security, on-call participation, and production support.

Nice To Haves

Proven ability to drive architecture, execution, and technical decision-making in ambiguous, high-impact areas.
Experience leading other engineers to deliver complex, high-impact projects across design, implementation, rollout, and production ownership.
Experience with Splunk Cloud, data onboarding, observability, security analytics, or related enterprise data platforms.
Experience with hosted integration platforms, API-based data collection, streaming or batch ingestion workflows, or extensible platform frameworks.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain complex technical decisions to senior leaders and non-specialists.
Experience with high-volume data ingestion, event processing, streaming systems, queues, or connector frameworks where correctness and reliability are critical.

Responsibilities

Set technical direction for a hosted data ingestion platform, including service architecture, platform APIs, developer workflows, customer onboarding, and long-term platform evolution.
Design, build, and evolve Go-based cloud services and platform components on Kubernetes, balancing scale, cost, reliability, and operability.
Drive designs that protect customer data through secure credential handling, reliable processing, failure recovery, and clear operational controls.
Own production quality for a multi-region ingestion platform through better observability, capacity planning, on-call participation, incident response, automated testing, and operational guardrails.
Make it faster and safer for engineering teams to add new data sources through reusable platform patterns, test frameworks, release processes, and readiness standards.
Partner with Product, cloud infrastructure, security, compliance, support, and field teams to turn customer and platform needs into crisp engineering priorities.
Mentor engineers across levels, lead design and code reviews, model high-quality technical decision-making, and grow the team's distributed systems and production engineering capability.
Synthesize platform tradeoffs, risks, and progress into clear communication for engineering leadership, product stakeholders, and partner teams.

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
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
4 paid days off for personal wellness determined by Cisco
16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year, accrued at rate of 4.92 hours per pay period for full-time employees (Non-exempt employees)
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) (Exempt employees)
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
annual bonuses subject to Cisco’s policies (for non-sales roles)
performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary (for sales roles)
grants of Cisco restricted stock units, which vest following continued employment with Cisco for defined periods of time.