Lead Software Engineer

3 days ago

San Jose, California, United States Cisco Full time $120,000 - $250,000 per year

Hybrid: San Jose, CA Only

Software Engineering Technical Leader

We are the Catalyst Center Platforms and Capabilities team, responsible for delivering scalable, secure, and high-productivity cloud-native infrastructure and PaaS capabilities that power thousands of enterprise customers. Our mission is to drive Cisco's digital infrastructure transformation through platform innovation. One of our key initiatives is a cloud-native platform for next generation application infrastructure purpose-built for Cisco Catalyst Center deployments powered by Kubernetes, popular open-source system for automated container management at scale.

Who We are Looking For

Are you passionate about working with leading-edge technologies? Do you thrive in fast-paced, agile environments where innovation happens every day? Do deep technical discussions on topics like PaaS abstractions that enables polyglot applications to be easily developed and hosted energize you? If the idea of building a next-generation, cloud-native Kubernetes powered platform excites you, then you belong here.

If you answered "yes" to all the previous questions, you would fit right into our team

What You'll Do

Technical owner and lead for core platform areas across Kubernetes, Linux, and networking. Define the roadmap, design scalable and secure primitives (runtime, networking, storage), mentor engineers, and partner with adjacent teams to deliver a dependable Kubernetes based microservices platform.

Required Qualifications

  • 8+ years in systems/platform/infra engineering; 3+ years operating Kubernetes in production at meaningful scale.
  • Deep Linux fundamentals (namespaces, cgroups, networking stack, filesystems) and strong TCP/IP knowledge (routing, NAT, load-balancing concepts, TLS/PKI).
  • Hands-on Kubernetes expertise (cluster operations, custom resources/controllers, networking/storage/ingress patterns).
  • Proficiency in a systems programming and Golang , Python.
  • Familiarity with infrastructure as code concepts and declarative configuration management.
  • Security mindset: access controls, network segmentation, workload isolation, and vulnerability reduction.
  • Experience across both cloud and on-prem environments.
  • Clear communication and demonstrated end-to-end technical leadership.
  • Lead through influence: run design reviews, set quality bars, mentor 4–8 engineers, and communicate trade-offs to leadership and partner teams.

Why Cisco

WeAreCisco, where each person is unique, but we bring our talents to work as a team and make a difference powering an inclusive future for all.

We embrace digital, and help our customers implement change in their digital businesses. Some may think we're "old" (39 years strong) and only about hardware, but we're also a software company. And a security company. We even invented an intuitive network that adapts, predicts, learns and protects. No other company can do what we do – you can't put us in a box

But "Digital Transformation" is an empty buzz phrase without a culture that allows for innovation, creativity, and yes, even failure (if you learn from it.)

Day to day, we focus on the give and take. We give our best, give our egos a break, and give of ourselves (because giving back is built into our DNA.) We take accountability, bold steps, and take difference to heart. Because without diversity of thought and a dedication to equality for all, there is no moving forward.

So, you have colorful hair? Don't care. Tattoos? Show off your ink. Like polka dots? That's cool. Pop culture geek? Many of us are. Passion for technology and world changing? Be you, with us

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