Cisco · 1 month ago
2000802
Seattle, WA
Full-time
Hybrid
Lead/Staff
$268K/yr - $339K/yr
12+ years expCisco Systems, through its subsidiary Splunk, is focused on building a safer and more resilient digital world. The role involves architecting and operationalizing Spark at scale as part of Cisco Data Fabric, ensuring high performance and reliability for processing large volumes of data.
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Responsibilities
Architect and operationalize Spark at scale as a core component of Cisco Data Fabric, enabling customers to access and analyze exponentially more data across diverse organizational sources
Build resilient, always-on infrastructure with automatic retry logic, fault tolerance, and seamless integration across myriad data sources and formats including Parquet, Iceberg, and modern table formats
Design the operational backbone—monitoring, observability, error handling, and horizontal scalability—that enables hundreds of engineers to build features confidently on solid foundations
Establish architectural patterns and support mechanisms that ensure high availability while maintaining performance at petabyte scale
Success is measured by customer adoption of data fabric capabilities and operational reliability metrics—uptime, ingestion performance, and incident reduction—that directly impact customer value
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's in Computer Science (or equivalent) with 15+ years of related experience; or Master's with 12+ years; or PhD with 8+ years or equivalent experience
Designed and deployed production Spark deployments at scale in cloud environments
Experience with modern data formats including Parquet, Iceberg, and related table/columnar formats
Production experience with AWS cloud platform
Led technical decisions and architectural direction across engineering organizations of 50+ engineers
Preferred
Production experience with Azure and/or GCP cloud platforms
Experience integrating with diverse data platforms such as Snowflake, Pinot, Databricks, Trino, or similar systems
Extensive Kubernetes experience in production environments
Proven track record mentoring and growing engineers, with strong collaboration skills across sponsors, design, product management, and engineering teams
Benefits
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 determined by Cisco
16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year, accrued at rate of 4.92 hours per pay period for full-time employees
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
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
Annual bonuses subject to Cisco’s policies
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
Company
Cisco
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Funding
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Leadership Team
Chuck Robbins
Chair and CEO
Carl Solder
Chief Technology Officer - Cisco System Australia/New Zealand
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