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# Software Development Engineering Manager

- **Company:** Cisco Systems, Inc.
- **Location:** Milpitas, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $210,600.0 - $305,100.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Adobe InDesign, Cloud Engineering, Cyber Security, Continuous Integration, Firmware, Secure Coding, Software Engineering, Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), Virtualization Technology, Git, Jenkins, Microservices
- **Published:** July 18, 2026
- **Apply:** https://dejobs.org/x/x/002858D4266742748BFB384B8E7DB574/job/

## About the Role

* Bachelors + 15 years of related experience, or Masters + 12 years of related experience, or PhD + 8 years of related experience.
 * 2+ years of People Management experience.
 * Demonstrated experience with Cloud native SW development cycle (Git, Jenkins, CI-CD)
 * Demonstrated experience in Development of Microservices and Virtualization
 * Demonstrated experience with TCP/IP Networking products and solutions

Preferred Qualifications

 * Excellent verbal and written communication skills
 * Experience with multi-functional Engineering Leadership team

## Description

* Lead a team of software engineers in the design, development and implementation of products or foundational technology

 * Lead teams working on large features from technical design through completion * Collaborates cross-functionally to ensure technical standards (e.g., potentially with external technology providers, and any internal technology dependencies)

 * Contribute to and maintain processes and standard (e.g., for design reviews, security, and testing)

 * Accountable for quality of product within area of responsibility; makes recommendations to products and services with respect to issues, opportunities and improvements, focusing on quality and performance

 * Identifying areas for improvement in process, architecture, design, and security

 * Considers all aspects of security from secure development practices to proper security architecture functionality

 * Lead large and/or complex projects from requirements to completion

 * Manage product and/or system level tradeoffs and design decisions to drive quality and consistency; updates team priorities as appropriate.

 * Contribute to product roadmap discussions and provide schedules and resource estimates, drive successful project and/or product development

 * Lead discussions with customers and/or partners to explain solutions, gather feedback, and work with multi-functional teams to ensure feedback is reflected in design decisions and deployment.

 * Works multi-functionally to define, drive, and deliver key projects in timely manner (e.g., Product Management, Operations, QA Firmware, Software, Mechanical, Vendors)


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