Principal Engineer – Platform Engineering

🕒 2 days ago

🏄 California, New York, +2 more states – Remote

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💵 $231.4k - $331.8k / year

⏰ Full Time

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🏗️ Platform 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

• Architect and drive the evolution of Kubernetes platform strategy across cloud and on-premises environments supporting mission-critical workloads at scale. • Lead the design and implementation of platform capabilities that improve reliability, security, scalability, and developer productivity for hundreds of engineering teams. • Partner with engineering, security, and product leaders to define multi-year platform roadmaps and drive execution of company-critical initiatives. • Provide technical leadership during major incidents, architecture reviews, platform transformations, and strategic infrastructure investments. • Mentor senior engineers and help raise the engineering bar through technical leadership, design reviews, operational excellence, and architectural guidance.

🎯 Requirements

• 15+ years of experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems in production environments • 7+ years of hands-on experience operating Kubernetes platforms in production, including multi-cluster environments • Experience architecting and operating cloud-native infrastructure across AWS, Azure, GCP, or hybrid cloud environments • Experience designing, operating, and troubleshooting networking architectures for large-scale Kubernetes platforms • Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code and GitOps technologies, including Terraform and ArgoCD or equivalent platforms • Strong software engineering experience with Go, Python, or similar programming languages used for automation and platform development.

🏖️ Benefits

• medical, dental and vision insurance • a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution • paid parental leave • short and long-term disability coverage • basic life insurance • 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 • 4 paid days off for personal wellness determined by Cisco • 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year • flexible vacation time off program • 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date