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Meet the team
Join our Control Plane organization! We provide a self-service, automated platform that empowers Splunk engineers to build world-class services with minimal friction. You will collaborate with exceptional teams, design solutions for complex technical challenges, and grow your experience with cloud infrastructure and AI. How would you like to help us drive the future of Splunk's platform?
Your impact
As a Software Engineer, you will contribute to a large-scale codebase that deploys daily across AWS, GCP, Azure, and GovCloud environments. You will build customer-facing solutions and internal tools that allow engineering teams to manage infrastructure efficiently. Success means delivering production-ready changes, maintaining system health, and participating in team-supported on-call rotations to solve critical incidents. We are excited for you to apply AI to real-world engineering problems and help us optimize our development workflows!
Build and maintain production services and self-service abstractions to facilitate strategic projects for thousands of customers.
Deploy, monitor, and troubleshoot multi-cloud systems while tuning alerts to improve system visibility for 99.9% uptime.
Develop AI-powered tools to automate engineering workflows, reducing configuration time by 20 percent.
Minimum qualifications
Meet one of the following (completed within the past 3 years or expected to be completed within the next 12 months):
-A Master's degree with 0 years of work experience; or
-A Bachelor's degree with 2 years of work experience
Qualifying education and work experience should be in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, Mathematics, or a related field.
Proficiency in Software Development, data structures, and algorithms, using languages such as Go, Python, or Ruby.
Exposure to cloud infrastructure with a focus on building or scaling secure services.
Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (IAC) tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or Puppet.
Foundational understanding of continuous delivery, automated testing, and system observability.
Preferred qualifications
Experience working with Kubernetes and Docker containers in production environments.
Strong command of Unix/Linux terminal environments and shell scripting.
Exposure to distributed programming concepts, including distributed databases and concurrency control.
Knowledge of cloud-specific concepts such as region management, availability zones, and high-availability strategies in AWS, GCP, or Azure.
Demonstrated initiative in owning technical projects with a proactive approach to continuous learning and mentorship.
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:
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:
$125,700.00 - $203,100.00
Non-Metro New York state & Washington state:
$111,700.00 - $180,800.00
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.
Cisco is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, genetic information, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected basis.
Cisco will consider for employment, on a case by case basis, qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
