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Principal Engineer, Data Services & Data Platform Cisco AI and Software Platform Group

Cisco$296K — $374K *
Information Technology
11 - 15 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
  • 15+ years of experience designing and delivering large-scale distributed systems or data platforms.
  • Experience with data services, cloud platforms, distributed storage, and service-oriented architectures.
  • Programming skills in languages like Java, Go, Python, or C++.

Responsibilities

  • Define and drive the multi-year technical roadmap for data services.
  • Design and build highly available, scalable, and resilient data systems.
  • Ensure the delivery of trusted, discoverable, and high-quality data.
  • Partner with cross-functional teams to turn business requirements into durable solutions.
  • Mentor senior engineering staff to elevate team standards.

Benefits

  • Opportunities for professional mentorship and skill development.
  • Collaboration with cross-functional teams across different domains.
  • Work on cutting-edge technologies including AI and modern data stacks.
Full Job Description
Your Impact
  • Strategic Vision & Engineering Leadership Define and drive the multi-year technical roadmap for data services. Influence engineering strategy, provide architectural guidance to leadership, and represent the organization in technical reviews to ensure alignment across teams.
  • Platform Architecture & Design Design and build highly available, scalable, and resilient data systems. Establish reusable primitives and robust architectural patterns for ingestion, processing, storage, and delivery, supporting everything from batch to real-time event-driven workflows.
  • Data Governance & Quality Ensure the delivery of trusted, discoverable, and high-quality data. Define standards for data products, schemas, lineage, and contracts to empower analytics, observability, and generative AI applications.
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration & Mentorship Partner with product, security, infrastructure, and AI/ML stakeholders to translate business requirements into durable solutions. Drive technical excellence by resolving complex scaling challenges and mentoring senior engineering staff to raise team standards.


Minimum Qualifications
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
  • 15+ years of experience designing and delivering large-scale distributed systems or data platforms.
  • Experience in data services, cloud platforms, distributed storage, data processing, and service-oriented architectures.
  • Programming experience in one or more languages such as Java, Go, Python, or C++.


Preferred Qualifications
  • Extensive experience building and scaling multi-tenant SaaS or enterprise data platforms from early-stage design to global production. Proficiency with a modern data stack, including Kubernetes, Kafka, Flink, Spark, object storage, lakehouse architectures, and distributed SQL engines.
  • Proven ability to support modern AI/ML workloads, including experience with feature stores, vector/unstructured data, model evaluation, and generative AI systems.
  • Deep understanding of the data lifecycle, with practical experience implementing robust frameworks for governance, data quality, lineage, cataloging, security, privacy, and regulatory compliance.
  • Demonstrated ability to work effectively across geographically distributed teams. A strong record of industry influence, which may include contributions to open-source projects, technical publications, patents, or established industry standards.

About Cisco

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Size
79,500 employees
Market Cap
$194.5 billion
Industry
Net Income
$10.1 billion
Founded
2014
5 Year Trend
+1.4%
Revenue
$48 billion
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