Data Engineer

2025379 - Data Engineer (Hybrid)

• This role is listed as hybrid the selected applicant should be expected to come into office 3 days a week
• NOTE: Job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received.

Meet the Team

We are the Customer Asset Data Foundation team within Cisco’s Data and Analytics organization. We lead the data infrastructure and analytical frameworks powering Cisco’s customer assets—install base, service agreements, and contracts/subscriptions. Our insights fuel renewals, sales, and finance teams. We operate as a lean, high-ownership, AI-native team, with work that impacts the entire organization and is visible at the highest levels. We’re excited to be building an AI-augmented data platform and invite engineers who want to be part of this journey!

Your Impact

As a Data Reliability Engineer, you will design, develop, and maintain AI-native data pipelines that are scalable, testable, and built for the future. We expect you to take full ownership of your work, applying strong technical judgment and a forward-thinking outlook toward AI tooling. Together, we will:

• Lead the build and implementation of dbt models, including architecture and organizational configurations.
• Optimize data pipelines to improve performance and cost-efficiency while meeting SLAs.
• Write production-grade SQL and Python scripts for data transformation, automation, and integration.
• Build and maintain data quality frameworks to ensure reliable metrics for executive reporting.
• Support AI integration by crafting data structures that enable LLM-generated insights.
• Evaluate and adopt AI-native tools like Snowflake CoCo and dbt Copilot to stay ahead.
• Collaborate closely with teammates to deliver on commitments and drive impact.

What We Do Together

We lead projects from design through completion, using our knowledge of Cisco data sources and security requirements. We validate, transform, and index data using analytic techniques and business insights. We analyze correlations across data sets and conduct statistical analyses to uncover meaningful patterns. We clean and prepare data for scalable use and develop custom data models with minimal guidance.

We build and optimize big data pipelines, develop new engineering features, and write clean, functional code with unit tests. We perform debugging, troubleshooting, and code reviews, always applying secure coding principles. We contribute to data quality, compliance, and automation frameworks, using internal security tools to flag and call out issues. We design monitoring features to supervise pipeline quality and performance. We work hand-in-hand with data scientists to support business needs and communicate findings through reports and visualizations.

Minimum Qualifications

We want you to bring:

• 4+ years of shown experience in data or analytics engineering, owning production-grade Snowflake environments with query optimization, RBAC, and schema design.
• Intermediate to sophisticated skills in dbt, including incremental models, macros, Jinja templating, snapshot strategies, and test frameworks.
• Expert-level SQL proficiency with window functions, recursive CTEs, complex aggregations, and query profiling in cloud data warehouses.
• Intermediate Python skills for pipeline scripting, ETL/ELT automation, and data wrangling using libraries like pandas or FastAPI.
• Experience designing enterprise-scale data architectures that support analytical reporting, including dimensional modeling and parametric configuration.

At Cisco, we’re revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era – and beyond. We’ve been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint.

Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you’ll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere. 

We are Cisco, and our power starts with you. 

Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location, market conditions, job-related skillset, experience, qualifications, education, certifications, and/or training. The full salary range for certain locations is listed below. For locations not listed below, the recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.

U.S. employees are offered benefits, subject to Cisco’s plan eligibility rules, which include medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, paid parental leave, short and long-term disability coverage, and basic life insurance. 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.

U.S. employees are eligible for paid time away as described below, subject to Cisco’s policies:

• 10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees

• 1 paid day off for employee’s birthday, paid year-end holiday shutdown, and 4 paid days off for personal wellness determined by Cisco

• Non-exempt employees** receive 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year, accrued at rate of 4.92 hours per pay period for full-time employees

• Exempt employees participate in Cisco’s flexible vacation time off program, which has no defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use (subject to availability and some business limitations)

• 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter, and up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward from one calendar year to the next

• Additional paid time away may be requested to deal with critical or emergency issues for family members

• Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer

For non-sales roles, employees are also eligible to earn annual bonuses subject to Cisco’s policies.

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. For quota-based incentive pay, Cisco typically pays as follows:

• .75% of incentive target for each 1% of revenue attainment up to 50% of quota;

• 1.5% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 50% and 75%;

• 1% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 75% and 100%; and

• Once performance exceeds 100% attainment, incentive rates are at or above 1% for each 1% of attainment with no cap on incentive compensation.

For non-quota-based sales performance elements such as strategic sales objectives, Cisco may pay 0% up to 125% of target. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid.

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

New York City Metro Area:

Non-Metro New York state & Washington state:

* 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.