About this Software Engineer role at Cisco
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Meet the Team
Splunk, a Cisco company, helps organizations build digital resilience across security and observability. The Structured Store team builds and maintains critical data-storage infrastructure and services that power core Splunk workflows and applications. We help shape the future of structured storage at Splunk through reusable architectures, service APIs, and design patterns that set standards for how these systems are scaled, optimized, operated, and extended.
Our engineers own the full service lifecycle, from design and implementation through deployment, observability, on-call response, and continuous improvement. The team's portfolio spans graph, key-value, and related structured-storage services running on premises and across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
In this role, you will remain hands-on while leading end-to-end projects and medium-sized features, coordinating delivery across product, SRE, security, support, and engineering partners, and contributing to the team's defined roadmap.
Your Impact
Lead medium-sized features and end-to-end projects through scoping, design, delegation, implementation, review, rollout, and production validation; contribute evidence and technical judgment to the defined roadmap.
Lead the design of versioned APIs and service capabilities for graph, key-value, and related structured-storage services, covering authentication, routing, placement, policy, caching, and database lifecycle operations; identify opportunities for related services to create greater customer value.
Remain hands-on in Go and adjacent technologies, resolve complicated errors, identify larger-scope risks through code and design reviews, and contribute to feature threat modeling.
Coordinate estimates, specifications, milestones, dependencies, and remediation plans across product, SRE, platform, security, support, and engineering partners.
Use product adoption, reliability, scalability, security, performance, and cost signals to guide design tradeoffs and continuously improve customer outcomes.
Act as an escalation point for production issues, lead cross-functional monitoring and recovery improvements, and lead postmortems, root-cause analysis, and durable corrective actions.
Mentor peers and junior engineers through reviews, documentation, and technical guidance; identify and recommend improvements to software-development and operational practices.
Minimum Qualifications
Bachelor's degree and 7+ years of related experience OR master's degree and 4+ years of related experience OR PhD and 1+ year of related experience.
5 years of experience developing production backend services and versioned APIs in Go, C++, or another systems programming language.
5 years of experience designing and operating production database-backed services using at least one graph, relational, or NoSQL database, including schema evolution, transaction handling, backup or recovery, or performance tuning.
5 years of experience designing production distributed systems involving consistency, replication, partitioning, routing, or failure recovery.
5 years of experience delivering and operating containerized services through CI/CD on Kubernetes in a public-cloud or on-premises environment.
Preferred Qualifications
If you meet the core qualifications but not every preferred item, we still encourage you to apply.
Deep Neo4j Enterprise and Cypher experience, including graph modeling, clustering, topology, Bolt or Query API usage, database provisioning, page cache, and transaction metrics.
PostgreSQL, Amazon Aurora, or RDS experience involving connection security, IAM authentication, schema evolution, tuning, backup, restore, and regional recovery.
Experience with Helm, Kubernetes controllers or Operators, GitLab CI/CD, Terraform, Puppet, or similar delivery and configuration tooling.
Experience integrating services across public clouds and on-premises environments, including service mesh, network policy, workload identity, or Vault.
Experience leading end-to-end software projects from design through production release and validation, including coordination across engineering teams or functions.
Experience mentoring engineers through code reviews, design reviews, or technical guidance.
Why Cisco?
At Cisco, we’re revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era – and beyond. We’ve been innovating fearlessly for 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.
Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you’ll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere.
We are Cisco, and our power starts with you.
Message to applicants applying to work in the U.S. and/or Canada:
The starting salary range posted for this position is $139,300.00 to $203,600.00 and reflects the projected salary range for new hires in this position in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including incentive compensation*, equity, or benefits.Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location, market conditions, job-related skillset, experience, qualifications, education, certifications, and/or training. The full salary range for certain locations is listed below. For locations not listed below, the recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.
U.S. employees are offered benefits, subject to Cisco’s plan eligibility rules, which include medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, paid parental leave, short and long-term disability coverage, and basic life insurance. Please see the Cisco careers site to discover more benefits and perks. Employees may be eligible to receive grants of Cisco restricted stock units, which vest following continued employment with Cisco for defined periods of time.
U.S. employees are eligible for paid time away as described below, subject to Cisco’s policies:
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, and 4 paid days off for personal wellness determined by Cisco
Non-exempt employees** receive 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year, accrued at rate of 4.92 hours per pay period for full-time employees
Exempt employees participate in Cisco’s 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)
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
For non-sales roles, employees are also eligible to earn annual bonuses subject to Cisco’s policies.
Employees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, which is split between quota and non-quota components, subject to the applicable Cisco plan. For quota-based incentive pay, Cisco typically pays as follows:
.75% of incentive target for each 1% of revenue attainment up to 50% of quota;
1.5% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 50% and 75%;
1% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 75% and 100%; and
Once performance exceeds 100% attainment, incentive rates are at or above 1% for each 1% of attainment with no cap on incentive compensation.
For non-quota-based sales performance elements such as strategic sales objectives, Cisco may pay 0% up to 125% of target. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid.
The applicable full salary ranges for this position, by specific state, are listed below:
New York City Metro Area:
$167,700.00 - $282,000.00Non-Metro New York state & Washington state:
$149,100.00 - $250,900.00* For quota-based sales roles on Cisco’s sales plan, the ranges provided in this posting include base pay and sales target incentive compensation combined.
** Employees in Illinois, whether exempt or non-exempt, will participate in a unique time off program to meet local requirements.
