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# Software Engineering Technical Leader - Cisco IQ

- **Company:** Cisco Systems, Inc.
- **Location:** Durham, NC, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $177,600.0 - $257,400.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Amazon Web Services, Application Layers, Business Logic, Software as a Service, Distributed Systems, Design of User Interfaces, Python (Programming Language), Network Protocols, Node.Js, Software Engineering, Systems Architecture, Openapi, Enterprise Software Applications, Large Language Models, Multi-Agent Systems, Backend, Information Technology, Graphql, Api Design, Grpc, Cisco, Golang
- **Published:** September 19, 2026
- **Apply:** https://dejobs.org/x/x/21ED01102FAA44CEBCBE72231A80529F/job/

## About the Role

* Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
 * Bachelors +12 years of experience in back-end software architecture and core software development using Python, Node, Go, or Java.
 * Experience building and shipping complex enterprise or SaaS applications
 * Production experience with LLM-backed applications: agent orchestration LangGraph, a state-machine runtime you wrote yourself, structured tool calling, and the failure handling that has to situnderneath both.
 * Experience with a contract-first API design and schema modeling (OpenAPI, TypeSpec, GraphQL, gRPC)., * Domain expertise in networking protocols, large-scale infrastructure management, and system-level design.
 * Proficiency in designing and managing cloud-agnostic, distributed architectures across AWS, GCP, and private cloud environments.
 * Exceptional communication and executive presence, with the proven ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders and translate high-level technical vision into actionable, long-term business outcomes.

## Description

In this role, you will act as a key technical leader, shaping the overarching vision and future of our digital services. You will design and lead the hands-on implementation of next-generation, intelligent enterprise applications. In this role, you will be the architectural anchor for embedding autonomous and semi-autonomous agentic capabilities directly into business-critical application workflows.

Rather than building foundational infrastructure or generic platforms, you will focus squarely on the application layer-designing contract-first, spec-driven architectures that connect application business logic, user interfaces, and backend systems to reasoning models via Model Context Protocol (MCP) and modern API ecosystems.