Hiring: Software Engineering Technical Leader - BackEnd Company: Cisco Location: Triangle, NC Job Posted Time: 2026-09-17 12:45:39 Employment Type: Full-time / Hybrid Target Skills & Keywords : AWS, Azure, CI/CD, Cassandra, DDD, Data Pipeline, Docker, Domain-Driven Design, DynamoDB, Enterprise Architecture, Fine-tuning, GCP, Grafana, GraphQL, Kafka, Kubernetes, LLM, MLOps, Microservices, OAuth2, OIDC, OpenTelemetry, Pinecone, PostgreSQL, Prometheus, Python, Qdrant, RAG, REST, Redis, Vault, gRPC About the job Experience: •4+ years’ experience in software development as a Technical Lead or similar lead role across large scale systems. •40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint. Required Skills: •Strategic Architectural Vision: Lead the end-to-end design and system topology for multi-tenant cloud platforms, evaluating emerging technologies to drive governance across microservices and hybrid data environments. •Enterprise AI & Autonomous Systems: Architect foundational AI applications, including distributed Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), agentic workflows, multi-modal LLM orchestrations, and secure vector retrieval systems. •High-Scale Distributed Systems: Design fault-tolerant, elastic systems by establishing company-wide standards for concurrency control, high-throughput messaging (Apache Kafka), caching, and multi-region data persistence. •Security, Compliance & Resilience: Enforce zero-trust integration patterns and data protection standards (HashiCorp Vault, OAuth2/OIDC) while ensuring compliance with enterprise Service Level Objectives (SLOs). •Technical Governance & Engineering Standards: Conduct global architecture review boards (ARBs) and champion best practices across API contracts (gRPC/REST), Kubernetes orchestration, CI/CD, and observability. •Leadership & Organizational Influence: Mentor Lead Software Engineers and drive technical consensus across matrixed pods, aligning disparate technology stacks toward unified enterprise goals. •Executive Alignment: Partner with product and engineering executives to translate long-term business strategy into actionable execution blueprints. Qualifications: •Bachelor’s with 8+ years of related experience or Master’s with 6+ years of related experience. •Python experience building production grade microservices and event driven architectures. •Technical experience in cloud-native ecosystems (such as AWS, GCP, or Azure), container orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker), and automated CI/CD infrastructures. •Background in API contract design (gRPC, REST, GraphQL) and systemic domain-driven design (DDD). •Strategic Product Vision: Demonstrated success in shaping overarching backend product strategies and data architectures, including evaluating and implementing pioneering capabilities (example – AI driven pipelines) to influence multi-year business roadmaps. •AI/ML Platform Architecture: Demonstrated history architecting scalable MLOps, LLM integration frameworks, agentic AI platforms, fine-tuning infrastructure, or large-scale hybrid/vector search engine integrations (e.g., Pinecone, Qdrant). •Operational Excellence: Experience establishing observability platforms (OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana), chaos engineering protocols, and formal site reliability engineering (SRE) frameworks. •Industry & Strategic Influence: Active involvement in driving open-source contributions, technology patents, enterprise architecture standards, or speaking at industry conferences. •Soft Skills: Demonstrated ability to navigate ambiguity, drive technical consensus, and communicate complex architectural concepts to divers stakeholders. •We are Cisco, and our power starts with you. Compensation: •$151,600 - $222,400 / year •And/or Canada locations, not including incentive compensation*, equity, or benefits Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!