Senior Data Engineer, Network Platform
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Senior Data Engineer building scalable, governed data platforms for Cisco’s cloud-managed networking solutions. Developing reliable pipelines, data context layers, and AI-enabled engineering workflows.
Responsibilities:
- Set technical direction for reliable, scalable batch and streaming pipelines and data products
- Work across structured and unstructured data
- Define and continuously improve expectations for data quality, freshness, availability, observability, recovery, and cost
- Lead production incident investigations and deliver lasting fixes
- Build and evolve a trusted, machine-readable data context layer
- Cover business definitions, metric semantics, ownership, lineage, quality/freshness, and governed access
- Integrate the data context layer with existing catalog and governance systems
- Apply AI and agentic workflows to pipeline development, validation, and bug triage
- Evaluate AI and agentic workflow results and use bounded permissions with human review for production-changing actions
- Deliver a trusted data foundation that scales, is observable and recoverable, reduces definition drift, and enables accurate data use by teams and AI applications
- Partner across Engineering, Product, Security, UX, Finance, Licensing, and other teams
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree + 7 years of related experience, or Master’s + 3 years of related experience, or PhD + 1 year of related experience
- 5+ years advanced SQL, including data modeling, complex transformations, and query performance tuning
- 5+ years Python building production data pipelines/services with automated testing and maintainable code
- 3+ years of Snowflake building, optimizing, and operating production data workloads
- Experience with distributed processing and orchestration, such as Spark and Airflow/Glue or equivalent
- Engineering practices across CI/CD, access controls, data quality, observability, incident response, or cost management
- Preferred: experience building trusted data context layers integrated with catalog/governance systems
- Preferred: experience applying AI tools/agents to scoped data engineering work
- Preferred: ability to influence architecture across teams, communicate trade-offs, mentor engineers, and grow technical capability
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
- 10 paid holidays per full calendar year
- 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees
- 1 paid birthday day off
- Paid year-end holiday shutdown
- 4 paid personal wellness days
- 16 days of paid vacation for non-exempt employees
- Flexible vacation time off program for exempt employees
- 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st
- Up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward
- Additional paid time away for critical or emergency family issues
- Optional 10 paid volunteer days per full calendar year
- Annual bonuses for non-sales roles, subject to Cisco’s policies
- Opportunities to grow and build
- Worldwide network of experts and team collaboration


















