Technical Leader

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🇨🇦 Canada – Remote

💵 $171.1k - $216.3k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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Cisco

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1984

🔧 Hardware

🔐 Security

🏢 Enterprise

Hardware • Security • Enterprise

Cisco is a multinational technology company that provides networking hardware, software, and services to enterprises, service providers, and governments. It builds routers, switches, optical transceivers, programmable silicon, and edge computing platforms, and offers security, collaboration (Webex), observability, and AI-enabled software and support services to help organizations design, operate, and secure large-scale networks and data centers. Cisco also delivers professional services, training, and cloud-managed solutions to support digital transformation and AI-ready infrastructure.

📋 Description

• Lead the design and development of large-scale data plane systems powering Splunk data ingestion infrastructure • Architect and lead high-throughput, fault-tolerant distributed systems that ingest and process metrics, logs, and traces • Define and drive the technical roadmap for platform reliability, scalability, and operational efficiency • Partner with product and engineering leadership to translate business requirements into pragmatic technical designs • Establish observability and capacity-planning best practices and standards • Participate in incident response and lead blameless post-incident reviews • Mentor and develop senior engineers through design reviews and code reviews • Own systems end-to-end from design through deployment, monitoring, and post-incident analysis • Drive multi-team technical decisions and influence architecture from prototype through production

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field • 10+ years of experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems in production • Strong proficiency in programming languages such as Golang • Experience with modern observability platforms and designing pipelines for logs, metrics, and traces • Experience designing observability for large systems, not just consuming it • Experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure at a platform level, including networking, storage, and cost optimization • Experience in full-lifecycle agentic development • Understanding of context and harness engineering best practices • Technical leadership and cross-functional influence experience at Staff or Principal level • Experience driving multi-team technical decisions, producing architecture proposals, mentoring senior engineers, and aligning technical strategy with business goals • Proven experience with capacity planning, traffic management, SLI/SLO definitions, and incident response at scale • C++ proficiency • Practical experience with Docker/OCI containers and Kubernetes at scale • Experience designing systems with security-first principles • Strong written and verbal communication skills • Ability to recognize when to prototype quickly and when to apply rigor

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, dental and vision insurance • 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution • Paid parental leave • Short- and long-term disability coverage • Basic life insurance • Cisco restricted stock unit grants may be available, vesting following continued employment • 10 paid holidays per full calendar year • 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees • Paid employee birthday • Paid year-end holiday shutdown • 4 paid days off for personal wellness • 16 days of paid vacation per full calendar year for non-exempt employees • Flexible vacation time off program with no defined limit for eligible exempt employees • 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter • Up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward annually • Additional paid time away for critical or emergency family issues • Optional 10 paid volunteer days per full calendar year • Annual bonuses for non-sales roles, subject to Cisco policies • Performance-based incentive pay for sales-plan employees