Software Engineering Technical Leader

Want to shape how thousands of customers connect to Splunk Cloud? Traffic Engineering Infrastructure (TEI) owns the Layer 3 and Layer 4 network that links customers, internal teams, and cloud providers to Splunk Enterprise Cloud across AWS, GCP, Azure, and GovCloud. All customer data and search traffic flows over the network we build, which makes our work foundational to Splunk Cloud. We're a close-knit, collaborative team of five engineers who tackle hard problems together, value balance, and enjoy what we do. Right now we're turning a queue of manual network requests into a self-service platform, and we'd love your help leading the way!

Your Impact 

Set the long-term technical direction for our connectivity platform, from architecture to build vs. buy decisions such as how we deliver IP address management. Write the services, APIs, and infrastructure as code that provision VPCs, VNETs, load balancers, private endpoints, and transit, so customers connect through self-service instead of waiting on hand-built changes. Lead our largest initiatives, from self-service provisioning to forward-looking network architecture that keeps our platform ready for future growth. Mentor engineers through code reviews, design feedback, pairing, and coaching, and shape our standards for code quality, testing, and observability. Take part in our weekly on-call rotation, bringing technical judgment to customer incidents and fixing root causes for good to reduce toil for the whole team. 

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelors + 8 years of related experience, or Masters + 6 years of related experience, or PhD + 3 years of related experience. 

• Experience building and operating large-scale production systems in Go and/or Python.

• Experience with Layer 3 and Layer 4 networking (IP routing, CIDR design, NAT, TCP and UDP, load balancing, and TLS) and with cloud networking in AWS, GCP, or Azure (VPCs or VNETs, route tables, security groups, transit gateways, and private endpoints).

• Experience building infrastructure as code with Terraform at scale, including reusable modules and CI/CD with safe promotion to production.

• Experience leading major technical initiatives and influencing engineering direction beyond your immediate team.

• Experience with multi-cloud transit and hybrid connectivity, such as AWS Cloud WAN, Transit Gateway, Aviatrix, BGP, Direct Connect, Cloud Interconnect, or IPsec VPN.

• Experience with private connectivity services such as AWS PrivateLink, GCP Private Service Connect, or Azure Private Link.

• Experience with IP address management at scale, using NetBox or a purpose-built service, and with IPv6 dual-stack design, including BYOIP.

• Experience with Kubernetes in production or with regulated environments such as GovCloud, FedRAMP, or DoD IL5.

• Strong communication and mentoring skills, with a track record of growing engineers across levels and explaining complex networking topics to engineers and executives alike

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. 

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:

Non-Metro New York state & Washington state:

* 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.