Software Engineering Technical Leader
Cisco is hiring a Software Engineering Technical Leader in Tel Aviv, Israel. Level rates it ; you can apply on Cisco.
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- Level rates this role Uses AI ●●○○: an ordinary role that requires AI tools.
- The posting mentions PostgreSQL, Nosql and Kubernetes among its tools and skills.
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AI in this role
Lead software engineering for AI-native cloud control platforms and distributed web services.
Cisco Cloud Control group is looking for a Software Engineering Technical Leader to shape the user experience of Cisco Cloud Control.
Meet the Team
The Cisco AI Software & Platform Group incubates and delivers Generative AI based solutions to reinvent Cisco's existing Products and how customers interact with them. Our Group is also introducing new offerings that help customers roll out Generative AI at scale while doing so responsibly. Ultimately we are doing so through internal platforms that unlock the benefits of this technology for Cisco teams and partners across our Security, Enterprise Networking, Collaboration and Splunk portfolios.
Your Impact
As a Technical Leader in Cisco Cloud Control, you’ll help build the next-generation platform that brings Cisco’s product portfolio together through an AI-native experience. You’ll provide hands-on technical leadership to a growing engineering team in TLV while collaborating with global Cisco teams.
- Own the technical direction, architecture, and delivery of end-to-end product capabilities.
- Translate product goals into scalable designs and executable engineering plans.
- Design reliable distributed systems using relational and NoSQL databases, queues, and event-driven architectures.
- Build high-quality, modern web experiences and supporting backend services.
- Collaborate with architects, product managers, designers, and global engineering teams on cross-product integrations.
- Drive security, scalability, resilience, performance, and observability.
- Contribute to the codebase, review PRs, and promote engineering excellence.
- Mentor engineers and help build a high-performing team.
Minimum Qualifications
- 7+ years of hands-on software development experience, including 2+ years in a technical leadership role.
- Proven experience designing, building, and operating scalable, reliable distributed systems.
- Strong experience with cloud-native architectures, microservices, APIs, and production operations.
- Hands-on experience with SQL and NoSQL databases, message queues, and event-driven architectures.
- Experience with modern software development practices, including CI/CD, observability, and production system integration.
Preferred Qualifications
- Proven experience managing high-performing, geographically distributed full-stack teams.
- Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.
- “Can-do” attitude, resilience, and the ability to thrive in a dynamic corporate environment.
- Full-Stack Software development experience
- Experience integrating AI capabilities into production software.
- Strong written and verbal English communication skills
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.
How we rate this
Software Engineering Technical Leader at Cisco rates 45 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Uses AI (AI Level 2 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.
Uses AI. An ordinary role that requires AI tools.
- ●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
- ●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
- ●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
- ●○○○ Little AI0 to 39
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- Tell me about a project where distributed systems was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where full stack was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where technical leadership was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where microservices was part of your work. What did you do?
- Walk me through how you've used PostgreSQL in your day-to-day work.
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- List these exact terms on your resume: Distributed Systems, Full Stack, Technical Leadership, Microservices, and PostgreSQL. An applicant tracking system matches the wording, not the idea.
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