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Meet the Team

This role will be for a technical leader within the Splunk Platform Identity org, spanning initiatives across 3 geographically distributed engineering teams. The area is responsible for the Identity stack within the Splunk portfolio across platform, security, and observability as well as how Splunk fits into the larger Cisco Identity architecture.

The team is central in the evolution of Splunk as a unified Cisco product, where identity management is pivotal in ensuring a smooth customer experience while moving from product to product, and access management policies demand the highest security to protect sensitive security and observability data. By being a key dependency for many new, strategic initiatives you will play a critical role in shaping how we design and deliver foundational components to our customers.

Your Impact

• Lead team members to develop systems, scope and decompose projects, mitigate technical debt and risk, and promote best practices.
• Drive the development of project timelines, design specifications, system flow diagrams, documentation, test plans and testing, and contribute to ongoing support of the product.
• Guide and mentor team members with a specific focus on architecture, software design, and security through 1-on-1 coaching and detailed code review feedback.
• Collaborate closely with Product Management and other specialists to understand customer needs and translate them into designs and product features.
• Assess and address security vulnerabilities detected by our ongoing Security testing activities.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelors and 12+ years of related experience in a Software Engineering domain
• Experience designing and delivering scalable Identity customer facing products and/or features
• Experience in programming languages such as Golang and/or C++
• Experience in building solutions on a diverse set of platforms (Cloud, AWS, Kubernetes)

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building strong or improving existing engineering practices and processes
• Experience leveraging AI technologies to quickly learn, adapt and accelerate development
• Understanding of the evolving identity and security industry standards
• Collaborating with geographically distributed teams

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 $174,700.00 to $253,400.00 and reflects the projected salary range for new hires in this position in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including incentive compensation*, 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:

$210,600.00 - $350,800.00

Non-Metro New York state & Washington state:

$189,300.00 - $312,200.00

• 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.