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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Senior Staff Software Engineer - **Company:** Cisco Systems, Inc. - **Location:** Woodbridge Township, NJ, United States (Remote available) - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $210,600.0 - $350,800.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Clean Code Principles, Software Design Patterns, Integrated Development Environments, Product Software Implementation Methods, Splunk, Cisco - **Published:** July 21, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=bd28b45c0185a8fc ## About the Role * Bachelors + 12 years of related experience, or Masters + 8 years of related experience, or PhD + 5 years of related experience. * 7+ years developing and driving processes for issue identification and sustainable response, proactive tooling, and continuous improvement for production Splunk systems Preferred Qualifications Varies based on the team and business needs | Preferred Qualifications are desired education, experience, and skills that are in addition to Minimum Qualifications. ## Description * Proactively identifies and participates in the resolution of complex problems that impact the direction of the business. * Develops and delivers innovative strategies that benefit customers and/or clients. * Leads major business projects which impact a region or entire function. * Contributes to the development of annual organizational objectives/priorities. * Builds and maintains long-term relationships with key stakeholders to ensure products and services reflect the needs and direction of the business. * Translates and influences the regional or functional strategic vision into a technical vision with clear engineering priorities, ensuring understanding and alignment across teams. * May lead projects that span the business segment, function or region. * May drive large features from technical design through completion. * Leads the development and implementation of software development lifecycle and agile engineering strategies across applicable teams in anticipation of the changing software development environment. * Influences technical direction and deliverables across the function. * Recognizes and makes trade-offs with respect to the whole system and defines new product categories. * Leads design choices within the context of all Cisco offerings. * Drives product success through creating metrics and influencing product adoption and direction. * Writes and sets the standard for functional clean code. * Develops and drives utilization and support for processes for issue identification and sustainable response, proactive tooling, and continuous improvement for production systems. * Industry or thought leader on scale, performance, or design patterns. * May represent or present team outputs at external events. * Communicates product or program priorities, deadlines, and shifts in requirements in the context of engineering priorities and user needs. * Negotiates and drives trade-offs in timing, design, and specifications to meet the needs of users and cross-functional partners. * Leads, mentors, and influences senior engineers. * Improves knowledge sharing processes. ## Related Videos - [How Cisco embraced a DevOps culture within its network engineering team](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/99-how-cisco-embraced-a-devops-culture-within-its-network-engineering-team) - [Our journey with Spring Boot in a microservice architecture](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/511-our-journey-with-spring-boot-in-a-microservice-architecture) - [Building software that scales with Typescript](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/415-building-software-that-scales-with-typescript) - [You’re a great coder? 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