Cisco

Software Technical Leader, Remote, Canada

Cisco$169K — $214K *
Information Technology
11 - 15 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in a technical field with extensive experience, or a PhD with significant experience.
  • 3+ years in professional coding with web backend technologies like Ruby on Rails, Go, and Python.
  • Proven ability to make architectural design decisions and mentor team members.
  • Hands-on experience with emulation and simulation of networking devices.
  • Demonstrated project leadership and ability to define metrics for progress.
  • Comfortable in fast-paced, agile environments and skilled in tackling complex problems across the technology stack.

Responsibilities

  • Build scalable distributed systems to enhance user experience and drive business growth.
  • Ensure operational excellence by implementing tests, telemetry, and alerts for system reliability.
  • Take ownership of projects from conception to production, influencing teams across the board.
  • Collaborate with engineering and product management to align team direction with business priorities.
  • Diagnose and resolve software defects, networking issues, and enhance system performance.

Benefits

  • Work in a dynamic environment with opportunities to influence and lead projects.
  • Gain exposure to cutting-edge technologies in distributed systems and networking.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams across various locations.
  • Engage in problem-solving across the entire technology stack.
  • Opportunities for professional development and further education.
Full Job Description
The application window is expected to close on: 10/06/2026
Job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received.

Your Impact
  • Work across the full stack, building highly scalable distributed solutions that enable delightful user experiences and measurable business growth
  • Ensure reliability, performance and operational excellence of these systems by adding tests, telemetry and alerting systems
  • Take complete ownership from conception to production release by demonstrating your ability to influence, facilitate, and work across different teams.
  • Partner with EM/PM and other collaborators so define teams direction based on engineering and business priorities
  • Solve software defects, networking issues, and customer-reported problems while improving performance, scalability, and reliability.

Minimum Qualifications
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field and 12+ years of related experience, or Master's degree with 8+ years, or PhD with 5+ years of related experience
  • 3+ years of experience of professional coding web backend technologies, such as Ruby on Rails or similar as well as Go/Ruby/Python and rolling services out safely to customers using feature flags, A/B tests etc
  • Demonstrated experience making architectural and system design choices. Ability to communicate the trade offs and coach other team members
  • Practical experience with Emulation and Simulation of Networking devices
  • Project Leadership through defining stepping stones for a project(s) based on loosely defined business problems and can identify metrics to track project progress
  • Ability to thrive in a fast paced agile engineering team and are excited to solve open-ended problems across the stack by rolling your sleeves up and working in all layers of the stack!

Preferred Qualifications
  • Experience with networking devices.
  • Experience with Cisco CML.
  • Experience systems software design, or large-scale distributed networking solutions.
  • Experience working across cross-functional or geographically distributed engineering teams. teams.

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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