Lead Software Engineer, Dashboard Build

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in California.

📋 Description

• Direct the architecture and technical strategy for build and deployment systems that adhere to FedRAMP High and DoD IL5 standards.

• Design, implement, and manage scalable, reliable, and high-quality build systems.

• Convert security and compliance requirements into access controls, audit logs, secret management, vulnerability response, and evidence collection.

• Collaborate with product engineering teams to oversee and sustain build health and precision.

• Partner with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) teams to guarantee the scalability and availability of build systems.

• Anticipate, identify, and address issues while coordinating triage and remediation efforts among product teams.

• Contribute to production code, conduct design reviews, code reviews, mentoring, debugging, and operational enhancements.

⛳️ Requirements

• A Bachelor's Degree combined with 8 years of experience in development, build, and release engineering or computer science, or a Master's Degree with at least 6 years of relevant experience, or a PhD with 3 years of comparable experience.

• Proficient in developing and configuring modular build/deploy systems and source control tools for Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD).

• Familiarity with scripting languages such as Shell, Groovy, Ruby, or Python.

• Experience with using containers in build environments.

• Proficient with AWS, Artifactory, Docker, and/or Kubernetes.

• Experience with JavaScript/TypeScript and React toolchains and pipelines.

• Experience with Ruby on Rails and RSpec pipelines.

• Preferred: experience with FedRAMP, DoD IL4/IL5, FISMA, GovRAMP, or similar regulated settings.

• Preferred: experience in database maintenance and production migrations.

• Preferred: experience with Elastic Stack and Grafana.

• Preferred: experience with automated testing frameworks such as RSpec, Jest, or Cypress.

• Preferred: experience leading technical projects or providing technical guidance across a team.

• Must be a U.S. Person for work in U.S. Government classified environments; certain positions may necessitate U.S. citizenship on U.S. soil.

🏝️ Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.

• 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution.

• Paid parental leave.

• Short- and long-term disability coverage.

• Basic life insurance.

• Cisco restricted stock unit grants may be available, vesting upon continued employment.

• 10 paid holidays each full calendar year.

• 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees.

• 1 paid day off for the employee’s birthday.

• Paid year-end holiday shutdown.

• 4 paid days off for personal wellness.

• 16 days of paid vacation each full calendar year for non-exempt employees.

• Flexible vacation time-off program with no defined limit for eligible exempt employees.

• 80 hours of sick time off provided upon hire and each January 1st thereafter.

• Up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward.

• Additional paid time off for critical or emergency family matters.

• Optional 10 paid volunteer days each full calendar year.

• Annual bonuses for non-sales roles, subject to Cisco’s policies.