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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.
Message to applicants applying to work in the U.S. and/or Canada:The starting salary range posted for this position is $169,600.00 to $214,500.00 and reflects the projected salary range for new hires in this position in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including incentive compensation*, equity, or benefits.
Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location, market conditions, job-related skillset, experience, qualifications, education, certifications, and/or training. The full salary range for certain locations is listed below. For locations not listed below, the recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.
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. Please see the Cisco careers site to discover more benefits and perks. Employees may be eligible to receive grants of Cisco restricted stock units, which vest following continued employment with Cisco for defined periods of time.
U.S. employees are eligible for paid time away as described below, subject to Cisco's policies:
- 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
For non-sales roles, employees are also eligible to earn annual bonuses subject to Cisco's policies.
Employees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, which is split between quota and non-quota components, subject to the applicable Cisco plan. For quota-based incentive pay, Cisco typically pays as follows:
- .75% of incentive target for each 1% of revenue attainment up to 50% of quota;
- 1.5% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 50% and 75%;
- 1% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 75% and 100%; and
- Once performance exceeds 100% attainment, incentive rates are at or above 1% for each 1% of attainment with no cap on incentive compensation.
For non-quota-based sales performance elements such as strategic sales objectives, Cisco may pay 0% up to 125% of target. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid.
The applicable full salary ranges for this position, by specific state, are listed below:
New York City Metro Area:
$214,100.00 - $356,300.00
Non-Metro New York state & Washington state:
$192,400.00 - $317,200.00
* For quota-based sales roles on Cisco's sales plan, the ranges provided in this posting include base pay and sales target incentive compensation combined.
** Employees in Illinois, whether exempt or non-exempt, will participate in a unique time off program to meet local requirements.
