Technical Leader

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

📋 Description

• Oversee the design and development of extensive data plane systems that support Splunk's data ingestion infrastructure.

• Architect and spearhead high-throughput, fault-tolerant distributed systems responsible for ingesting and processing metrics, logs, and traces.

• Define and steer the technical roadmap aimed at enhancing platform reliability, scalability, and operational efficiency.

• Collaborate with product and engineering leadership to convert business needs into practical technical designs.

• Establish best practices and standards for observability and capacity planning.

• Engage in incident response and lead blameless post-incident evaluations.

• Mentor and cultivate senior engineers through design and code reviews.

• Take ownership of systems from design through deployment, monitoring, and post-incident analysis.

• Drive technical decisions across multiple teams and influence architecture from prototype to production.

⛳️ Requirements

• A Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical discipline.

• Over 10 years of experience in building and managing large-scale distributed systems in production environments.

• Strong proficiency in programming languages such as Golang.

• Experience with contemporary observability platforms and designing pipelines for logs, metrics, and traces.

• Experience in designing observability for large systems, rather than merely utilizing it.

• Familiarity with AWS, GCP, or Azure at a platform level, including aspects of networking, storage, and cost optimization.

• Background in full-lifecycle agentic development.

• Knowledge of context and harness engineering best practices.

• Experience in technical leadership and cross-functional influence at the Staff or Principal level.

• Proven track record of driving multi-team technical decisions, generating architecture proposals, mentoring senior engineers, and aligning technical strategies with business objectives.

• Demonstrated experience with capacity planning, traffic management, SLI/SLO definitions, and incident response on a large scale.

• Proficiency in C++.

• Practical experience with Docker/OCI containers and Kubernetes at scale.

• Experience in designing systems with security-first principles.

• Excellent written and verbal communication abilities.

• Capability to discern when to prototype swiftly and when to apply thoroughness.

🏝️ 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 after continued employment.

• 10 paid holidays per full calendar year.

• 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees.

• Paid employee birthday.

• Paid year-end holiday shutdown.

• 4 paid days off for personal wellness.

• 16 days of paid vacation per 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 on hire date and each January 1st thereafter.

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

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

• Optional 10 paid volunteer days per full calendar year.

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

• Performance-based incentive pay for sales-plan employees.