Principal Software Engineer, Developer Platforms

🔥 47 minutes ago

⛰️ Colorado, Washington – Remote

⛰️ Colorado – Remote ☕ Washington – Remote

💵 $241.4k - $322.6k / year

⏰ Full Time

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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

• Provide senior technical leadership for quality systems across Developer Platforms • Design production-grade platforms that improve software validation and release confidence across Splunk • Partner with technical leaders across Splunk and Cisco to translate architectural change into practical platform direction • Guide modernization and migration efforts across multiple engineering teams • Contribute hands-on while mentoring senior engineers • Build durable platforms that teams adopt and that measurably improve delivery confidence

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience designing, building, and operating production-grade systems or internal platforms • 3+ years of experience in developer platforms, quality engineering, test frameworks, CI/CD, build systems, release automation, infrastructure platforms, or developer tooling • Experience with automated testing, release pipelines, service architecture, distributed systems, or comparable modern software development practices • Experience leading architectural change, platform modernization, or large-scale technical migrations across multiple engineering teams • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience • Experience providing technical leadership across teams without direct reporting authority • Experience building platforms for large internal engineering communities or organizations with thousands of developers • Experience with AI-enabled engineering workflows, quality analytics, or emerging developer productivity technologies • Ability to create clarity, communicate complex technical ideas, and align engineers, managers, and cross-functional stakeholders • Passion for improving developer experience, engineering quality, automation, and software delivery confidence

🏖️ 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, subject to vesting • 10 paid holidays per full calendar year • 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 • 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 on hire date and each January 1st, with up to 80 unused hours carried forward • 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