Technical Leader, Software Engineer

Cisco•Milpitas, CA

About The Position

Develops software consistent with Cisco ‘Design Thinking Principles’ with a focus on simplification and UX (User Experience) at its core, using secure coding practices, ensuring user privacy, and following software development best practices. Partners with other teams including design and product management to create the right solution for the customers. Creates technical design documentation to be used by the team as well as contributing to user documentation to be used by end users. Debugs and addresses software issues during development and in production systems to support customers. Brings new ideas for product innovation and helps improve software development processes.

Requirements

Bachelors + 8 years of related experience, or Masters + 6 years of related experience, or PhD + 3 years of related experience.
Requires in-depth conceptual and practical knowledge in primary technical job family and knowledge of related technical job families; has worked extensively with a range of technologies.

Nice To Haves

Varies based on the team and business needs.

Responsibilities

Uses specialized expertise in one or more areas to interpret internal or external business issues and recommends best practices.
Solves complex problems and takes abroad perspective to identify innovative solutions.May lead small-to-medium features from technical design through completion.
May lead projects that span multiple teams; manages workload and workstreams holistically.
Influences a defined software engineering roadmap.
May lead medium-to-large features from technical design through completion.
Provides expertise in the development and implementation of the software development lifecycle, and agile engineering strategies across applicable teams and partners.
Leads and mentors others, and improves the technical design of solutions Advocates for new features within a product to address customer needs.
Articulates design choices based on an expert understanding of market awareness, product adoption, and competition.
Innovates new products to address unmet customer needs
Influences and tracks metrics to measure success
Writes functional clean code and unit tests at a level that sets the standard for coding across teams.
Influences architectural decisions with a focus on security,scalability and reliability.
Contributes to threat modeling of a product.
Proactively identifies, prioritizes, and resolves risk and issues in production systems.
Designs and implements robust monitoring tools that provide visibility and reliability and acts on the data and alerts to increase future performance.
Leads postmortems and reviews root cause analysis, ensures on call coverage.
Expert on multiple functional components
May contribute to knowledge sharing among the wider professional community with technical blogs or publications.
Scopes work accurately and provides reliable estimates for project milestones and completion.
Communicates delivery trade-offs and negotiates with crossfunctional partners to align on direction and outcomes.
Mentors peers or others on the team
Facilitates/encourages knowledge sharing in the team (e.g., brownbags, demos, design sessions)

Benefits

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.
Employees may be eligible to receive grants of Cisco restricted stock units, which vest following continued employment with Cisco for defined periods of time.
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
Employees in Illinois, whether exempt or non-exempt, will participate in a unique time off program to meet local requirements.