Staff Software Engineer-Edge Processor

Cisco is revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era. The Staff Software Engineer will develop software focusing on user experience and secure coding practices, while collaborating with various teams to create innovative solutions for customers.

Responsibilities:

• 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 and reliability
• Contributes to threat modeling of a product
• Proactively identifies, prioritizes, 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

Requirements:

• 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 concepts (e.g., consistency models, fault tolerance, consensus algorithms)
• Experience with data processing technologies like kafka, Open Telemetry, Kubernetes or others
• Proven track record of delivering high-quality, maintainable code with ability to adapt to new technologies
• Strong debugging and troubleshooting skills with expertise in Linux-based tools and advanced diagnostics
• Strong advocate for operational excellence, driving best practices for monitoring, alerting, and incident response
• Experience with data platforms, data ingestion, or similar enterprise-scale data processing technologies