Security Software Engineering Technical Leader
Cisco
What You'll Do
We are developing our team and currently looking for experienced cloud systems engineers to work in an international environment in downtown Prague, Czech Republic as a part of the Security Business Group spanning across Europe, US and Canada. The Asset Insights team is in search of outstanding data engineers with a real passion for building great things and taking on relevant problems, including:
- Build high-performance systems capable of handling challengingly Big Data maintained by CISCO, build and support pipelines and infrastructures enabling large-scale data processing and Machine Learning computations
- Using AWS services to deliver, process, and transform data, including: Memory DB, OpenSearch, RDS, Aurora, SQS, SNS, and S3
- Managing and supervising application health and status across testing and production systems to ensure stability, high availability, and consistent delivery of data for the product
- Collaborating with other specialists to review code changes, communicate progress, and finalize system requirements
- Testing new features using unit tests, manual verification, and supporting end-to-end integration tests
- Building and maintaining data access layers to control access to sensitive data
Who You'll Work With
We are a bunch of former startups collectively called Security Business Group, and we keep an agile, fun, hard-working upstart culture within Cisco. We balance partnership and integration with autonomy and innovation to deliver the most effective solution to our customers’ problems. The outstanding mix of our innovative approach to security and Cisco’s industry dominance surpasses what any other security startup could ever achieve on its own.
You will become a part of the Asset Insights team supporting Security products by ingesting data across multiple security sources, handling infrastructure to ensure stability and high availability for Cisco XDR, and contributing to state-of-the-art detections to identify malicious activity from threat actors
Who You are
So, if you share our passion for technology innovation, have experience in providing scalable infrastructure for cloud based big data application and you love to get along with industry leaders with vision daily, this is the job for you. We look forward to receiving your application and CV.
Our minimum requirements for this role:
- 4+ years relevant software engineering (e.g., TypeScript, Python, or Java, or similar)
- 2+ years Cloud systems engineering experience (preferably AWS)
- Familiarity with common database technologies (e.g. PostgreSQL, Oracle)
- Experience with cloud automation technologies (e.g. Terraform, Cloud Formation)
Preferred Requirements
- Familiarity with network configuration and support
- Experience delivering a SaaS-based software product
- Experience working with issue and project tracking management software (e.g., Jira, GitHub)
- Experience with version control and continuous integration tools (e.g., Jenkins, TeamCity, GitHub actions)
- Experience with application performance monitoring & error tracking solutions
- Experience testing software code (writing automated unit tests, automating end-to-end tests)
- Strong verbal and written communication and advocacy skills, with the ability to express complex/technical issues in clear concise terms.
- Experience working with customers to support troubleshooting and bug fixes
Why Cisco
At Cisco, each person brings their outstanding talents to work as a team and make a difference. Yes, our technology changes the way the world works, lives, plays and learns, but our edge comes from our people.
- We connect everything – people, process, data and things – and we use those connections to change our world for the better.
- We innovate everywhere - From launching a new era of networking that adapts, learns and protects, to building Cisco Services that accelerate businesses and business results. Our technology powers entertainment, retail, healthcare, education and more – from Smart Cities to your everyday devices.
- We benefit everyone - We do all of this while tackling for a culture that empowers every person to be the difference, at work and in our communities.
Colorful hair? Don’t care. Tattoos? Show off your ink. Like polka dots? That’s cool. Pop culture geek? Many of us are. Be you, with us! #WeAreCisco.
When available, the salary range posted for this position reflects the projected hiring range for new hire, full-time salaries in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including equity or benefits. For non-sales roles the hiring ranges reflect base salary only; employees are also eligible to receive annual bonuses. Hiring ranges for sales positions include base and incentive compensation target. Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location and additional factors, including but not limited to skillset, experience, and relevant education, certifications, or training. Applicants may not be eligible for the full salary range based on their U.S. or Canada hiring location. The recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.
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Employees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, which is split between quota and non-quota components. 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 up to 125% of target. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid.