Cisco

Software Engineer, Structured Storage

RTP, North Carolina, US · Full-time

Sponsorship not specified$127k-$182kDetected 1 hour ago

C++Backend DevelopmentGitNoSQLPostgreSQLAWSAzureKubernetesTerraformHelmCI/CDSite Reliability EngineeringCisco

About the role

The application window is expected to close on: Job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received. Role Summary Splunk, a Cisco company, helps organizations build digital resilience across security and observability. The Structured Store team builds and maintains critical data-storage
infrastructure and services that power core Splunk workflows and applications. We help shape the future of structured storage at Splunk through reusable architectures, service APIs, and design patterns that set standards for how these systems are scaled, optimized, operated, and extended. Our engineers own the full service lifecycle, from design and

Experience with Helm, Kubernetes controllers or Operators, GitLab CI/CD, Terraform, Puppet, or similar delivery and configuration tooling.
Experience operating services across one or more public clouds and on-premises environments, including service mesh, network policy, workload identity, or Vault integrations.
Knowledge of database internals, storage engines, query planning, indexes, transaction logs, concurrency control, or large-scale performance testing.

The application window is expected to close on: Job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received.
The team's portfolio spans graph, key-value, and related structured-storage services running on premises and across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
Improve reliability, scalability, security, performance, and cost efficiency using metrics, traces, logs, profiles, load tests, and customer or product-success signals.
Share knowledge through documentation, reviews, and technical discussions
mentor peers or interns and help strengthen engineering practices across the team.
Bachelor's degree and 5+ years of related experience OR master's degree and 3+ years of related experience OR PhD.
Experience with at least one production graph, relational, or NoSQL database, including data modeling, queries, schema or data migrations, transactions, or performance tuning.
Experience deploying containerized services through CI/CD to Kubernetes or a comparable orchestration platform.

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.
The applicable full salary ranges for this position, by specific state, are listed below:

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.
Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location, market conditions, job-related skillset, experience, qualifications, education, certifications, and/or training.

$135,800.00 - $224,400.00 * 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.
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