Software Engineering Technical Leader; Hybrid

Position: Software Engineering Technical Leader (Hybrid)
The application window is expected to close on: 10/29/2026

This position is a hybrid role, requiring the employee to work both onsite and remotely. Candidates should be comfortable with a flexible work arrangement that balances in-office collaboration and remote work. Specific onsite days and remote days will be coordinated with the team and manager.

Meet the Team  The Search Experience UI team builds and improves Splunk’s search and dashboard experiences, helping customers turn machine data into insights they can act on. The team’s work supports highly visible, business-critical products used by both advanced and beginner users. You’ll work with engineers, product managers, designers, and QA to solve complex problems in a collaborative environment. The work offers opportunities to shape features and designs, contribute to architecture discussions, and improve the tools and practices that help frontend engineers work effectively.

The team values problem solving, learning, mentorship, and sharing ideas and successes. Your Impact  Build intuitive analytics experiences that make it easier for customers to create and use searches and dashboards in Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Cloud. Partner with product, design, and backend engineering to understand customer needs and turn them into well-designed product features. Shape implementation plans and technical designs, and contribute to documentation, testing, and ongoing support.

Improve existing code and help drive the frontend technical roadmap, with a focus on reusable, scalable components and quality. Mentor engineers and contribute to design sessions, code reviews, and architecture discussions to improve team effectiveness and the customer experience.

Minimum Qualifications  Bachelors + 8 years of prior experience in web software development, or Masters + 6 years of prior experience in web software development, or PhD + 3 years of prior experience in web software development Applied experience building client-side applications with JavaScript or Type Script and modern frameworks or libraries such as React, Redux, or Backbone.js. Applied experience using command-line tools, source control, testing frameworks, and continuous integration in software development.

Applied experience mentoring engineers, contributing to design and code reviews.

Preferred Qualifications  Prior experience in full-stack or backend development. Prior experience with infrastructure tools or workflows such as Python, Git Lab, or CI/CD. Prior experience with browser internals, including JavaScript engines, the DOM, and browser APIs, and applying that knowledge to improve performance. Prior experience using telemetry to inform product or customer decisions. Prior experience with applying AI tools to improve engineering workflows.

Why Cisco? 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.

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