Backend Engineering Technical Leader – Golang

Cisco

Technical Leader providing leadership to engineers building workload security products, focusing on scalable performance and security for customer environments. Collaborating on backend services for complex workload protection.

Posted 7/16/2026full-timeRemote • California, Maine, Montana, New Mexico, North Dakota • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $183,800 - $263,600 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in building scalable software systems with a focus on workload security, leveraging programming languages such as Go, C++, or Java. Proven ability to provide technical leadership and architectural contributions in complex distributed environments while employing agile methodologies.

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Technical LeadershipSoftware Development in Go, C++, or JavaAgile MethodologiesKubernetes ExperienceCloud API Programming for AWS, Azure, or GCP

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Hard Skills

Software DevelopmentSystems ProgrammingPerformance EngineeringSecurity ArchitectureSchema/Data ModelingLarge-Scale Event ProcessingAlgorithmsDatabasesBackend Services DevelopmentTelemetry Processing

Soft Skills

Team LeadershipCollaborationProblem SolvingCommunication

Tools & Technologies

KubernetesAWSAzureGCP

Industry Keywords

Workload SecurityDistributed SystemsEvent Processing ArchitecturesTechnical Solution Architecture

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSAzureCloudGoGoogle Cloud PlatformJavaKubernetesReact

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

work with and provide technical leadership to a team of highly motivated engineers
build software for workload security products that cater to highly complex and scalable customer environments
protect crown jewel application workloads from increasingly complex threat vectors
provide technical leadership and make architectural contributions in backend services
Collect and process telemetry at scale from data sources in customer environments
React to changes in environment and render policies in a highly scalable manner to a large number of enforcement points
Implement API endpoints that need to respond with minimal latencies even when crunching large volumes of data
Will be deployed in highly complex distributed system environments and involve failure modes unique to those environments

Requirements

What you’ll need

At least 6+ years' experience building software systems in one or more programming languages such as Go, C++, or Java.
Technical leadership experience in a software engineering environment
Agile experience
Bachelor's degree with 6 years of related experience, Master's with 4 years, PhD with 2 years, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
In lieu of a degree, a minimum of 10 years of relevant professional experience
Proficiency in Computer Science foundational areas, including algorithms, systems, databases, performance engineering and security architecture
Schema/Data modeling design experience
Experience with large-scale event processing architectures
Experience in systems programming and performance engineering
Experience working with security architecture and database design
Kubernetes experience
Experience programming using cloud APIs for AWS, Azure, or GCP.
A professional who embraces agile methodologies that involve rapid prototyping by feedback gathered from customers, peers and technical solution architects, customer enablement engineers and support engineers.
A technically skilled leader who enjoys architecting, designing, analyzing, and brainstorming solutions that improve the product and produce customer-facing capabilities.

Benefits

Comp & perks

medical, dental and vision insurance
a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution
paid parental leave
short and long-term disability coverage
basic life insurance
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
4 paid days off for personal wellness
Non-exempt employees receive 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year
Exempt employees participate in Cisco’s flexible vacation time off program
80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter
up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward from one calendar year to the next
Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer