Software Technical Leader (Remote)

This role can be performed from any location within Canada.

Meet the Team!

The Platform Experience Backend team builds the APIs that power Splunk's visual search and data analysis solutions—enabling users to monitor, analyze, and act on log events, metrics, and time series data through intuitive point-and-click workflows. We're working on exciting unannounced big data products that will expand what Cisco and Splunk customers can do with their data in AI workflows. Our team is collaborative, fast-paced, and ownership-heavy—skilled engineers who are friendly, open, and genuinely invested in helping each other grow. If you want to design world‑class APIs that shape how customers interact with their data at scale, this is the place!

Your Impact

• Architect customer-facing REST APIs that power user interfaces and enable enterprise customers to automate data management workflows—including complex and long-running operations at scale.
• Shape the technical roadmap for Platform Experience backend services, ensuring architectural alignment across cloud and on-premise deployments.
• Build, test, deploy, and maintain critical backend services. Provide technical guidance and validate the feasibility of proposed designs.
• Own multi-team initiatives from design through production, with full accountability for quality, performance, and customer outcomes.
• Optimize services for performance and scalability. Develop testing and profiling strategies that keep production running smoothly.
• Define API standards and best practices across the organization, improving API quality and development efficiency within Data Management.
• Mentor engineers through design reviews, code reviews, and hands‑on guidance—maintaining high standards while helping the team grow.
• Partner with designers, frontend engineers, technical writers, and other API teams to negotiate trade-offs and ship cohesive solutions.

Minimum Qualifications

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Why Cisco?

At Cisco, we’re revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era – and beyond. We’ve been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint.

Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you’ll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere.

We are Cisco, and our power starts with you.

Message to applicants applying to work in the U.S. and / or Canada

The starting salary range posted for this position is $144,400.00 to $194,400.00 and reflects the projected salary range for new hires in this position in U.S. and / or Canada locations, not including incentive compensation

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 :

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

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

$183,800.00 - $303,100.00

Non-Metro New York State & Washington State

$163,600.00 - $269,800.00

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