Software Engineering Technical Leader

Cisco

Technical Leader in Software Engineering at Splunk enhancing observability and internal platforms. Drive architectural decisions while mentoring engineers and ensuring reliability in services.

Posted 5/1/2026full-timeBoulder • Colorado, North Carolina, Texas, Washington • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $174,700 - $253,400 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudDistributed SystemsDockerKubernetesLinuxPuppetPythonSplunkTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Drive technical leadership on architecture, platform design, and major engineering decisions.
Establish and promote SRE/SWE standard methodologies for how the team builds, operates, monitors, and improves services.
Lead Splunk administration for the team’s internal logs and telemetry platforms, ensuring reliability, scalability, and operational excellence.
Leverage AI automation & agentic solution to reduce manual toil.
Help to set technical direction for reliability, scalability, and platform evolution, and guide the team in making sound engineering trade-offs.
Mentor engineers and influence technical execution through effective design reviews, operational discipline, and engineering leadership.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelors + 8 years of related experience, or Masters + 6 years of related experience, or PhD + 3 years of related experience
Strong experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Software Engineering, platform engineering, or observability-focused infrastructure roles
Experience with a mix of Splunk (or similar products), Linux, Docker, Kubernetes, Python, GoLang, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Terraform, Puppet, CI/CD, Git, DevOps or SRE concepts
Experience working with cloud infrastructure and services, with a strong understanding of modern platform architecture and distributed systems operations
Experience driving automation to reduce operational toil and improve platform reliability, scalability, and efficiency
Familiarity with AI-assisted engineering tools such as Claude, Codex, or similar technologies to improve productivity, automation, and operational workflows
Excellent communication skills and a history of collaborating effectively with multi-functional teams
Must be a US Citizen or Green Card holder.

Benefits

Comp & perks

medical, dental and vision insurance
401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution
paid parental leave
short and long-term disability coverage
basic life insurance
paid time away including 10 paid holidays, birthday leave, year-end holiday shutdown, and personal wellness days
vacation time for non-exempt and exempt employees
80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st
optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer
annual bonuses for non-sales roles
performance-based incentive pay for sales roles

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Hard Skills & Tools

Site Reliability EngineeringSoftware Engineeringplatform engineeringobservability-focused infrastructureSplunkLinuxDockerKubernetesPythonGoLang

Soft Skills

technical leadershipmentoringeffective design reviewsoperational disciplinecollaborationcommunication

Certifications

BachelorsMastersPhD