Senior Staff Software Engineer

Cisco is revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era. The Senior Staff Software Engineer will develop software with a focus on user experience and simplification, collaborate with design and product management, and lead major business projects while influencing technical direction across the organization.

Responsibilities:

• Recognized as an expert within Cisco
• Proactively identifies and participates in the resolution of complex problems that impact the direction of the business
• Develops and delivers innovative strategies that benefit customers and/or clients
• Leads major business projects which impact a region or entire function
• Contributes to the development of annual organizational objectives/priorities
• Builds and maintains long-term relationships with key stakeholders to ensure products and services reflect the needs and direction of the business
• Translates and influences the regional or functional strategic vision into a technical vision with clear engineering priorities, ensuring understanding and alignment across teams
• May lead projects that span the business segment, function or region
• May drive large features from technical design through completion
• Leads the development and implementation of software development lifecycle and agile engineering strategies across applicable teams in anticipation of the changing software development environment
• Influences technical direction and deliverables across the function
• Recognizes and makes trade-offs with respect to the whole system and defines new product categories
• Leads design choices within the context of all Cisco offerings
• Drives product success through creating metrics and influencing product adoption and direction
• Writes and sets the standard for functional clean code
• Develops and drives utilization and support for processes for issue identification and sustainable response, proactive tooling, and continuous improvement for production systems
• Industry or thought leader on scale, performance, or design patterns
• May represent or present team outputs at external events
• Communicates product or program priorities, deadlines, and shifts in requirements in the context of engineering priorities and user needs
• Negotiates and drives trade-offs in timing, design, and specifications to meet the needs of users and cross-functional partners
• Leads, mentors, and influences senior engineers
• Improves knowledge sharing processes

Requirements:

• Bachelors + 12 years of related experience, or Masters + 8 years of related experience, or PhD + 5 years of related experience
• 7+ years developing and driving processes for issue identification and sustainable response, proactive tooling, and continuous improvement for production Splunk systems