Meet the Team
Cisco's Webex Engineering Group is redefining the future of collaboration. We're building a world where people connect effortlessly to enjoy modern, uncompromised collaboration across every room, desk, pocket, and application.
Our technology powers industry-leading products like Slido, Webex Meetings, Webex Calling, and Webex Contact Center. As a member of our team, your work will ensure every user gets a truly immersive experience regardless of device or location, empowering the hybrid working patterns of the future.
Our team is based in Bratislava. We operate a hybrid working model.
Your Impact
As an Engineering Manager for the Webex Partner Hub, you will lead the architecture and scaling of a robust ecosystem designed to transform how our partners conduct business. You will drive partner success by delivering intuitive, high-performance capabilities that empower them to seamlessly manage customer lifecycles, provision complex services, and leverage actionable, data-driven insights.
By prioritizing platform scalability and architectural excellence, you will ensure our infrastructure not only meets the current demands of our global partner network but also evolves to anticipate future market needs. You will foster a collaborative engineering culture that bridges the gap between technical innovation and business value, ultimately accelerating revenue growth, reducing operational friction, and solidifying the Webex Partner Hub as the industry-leading platform for digital collaboration services.
Key Responsibilities
Act as the Service Owner for Partner Hub, with end-to-end accountability for service health, reliability, security, operational readiness, and lifecycle management.
Lead, mentor, and grow a team of software engineers focused on the Partner Hub platform.
Drive the technical roadmap and delivery of features that enhance partner productivity and platform scalability.
Foster an agile, high-velocity development environment while maintaining high standards for code quality and system reliability.
Collaborate closely with Product Management to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
Champion engineering excellence, including CI/CD practices, security, and observability.
Minimum Qualifications
Bachelor’s or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or an equivalent field, or equivalent practical experience.
7+ years of professional software engineering experience, including at least 3+ years in a formal leadership or management capacity.
Proven track record of leading high-performing engineering teams within a SaaS or cloud-based environment.
Comprehensive understanding of modern web technologies, scalable API design, and cloud-native architectures.
Demonstrated ability to manage complex, multi-functional projects and consistently deliver high-quality software on schedule.
Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to lead, mentor, and inspire diverse, distributed teams.
Preferred Qualifications
Proven experience in defining and executing technical roadmaps that align with broader organizational goals. Ability to translate complex business strategies into clear, actionable team priorities.
Demonstrated success in managing stakeholder relationships at the Senior Manager and Director, driving alignment across organizational boundaries to deliver high-impact outcomes.
Experience architecting or managing the development of large-scale, distributed systems or SaaS platforms. Deep understanding of modern cloud-native architectures and the ability to guide teams through complex technical trade-offs.
A strong track record of coaching and developing high-performing engineering teams. Experience in fostering a culture of engineering excellence, including CI/CD, security, and observability, while empowering team members through regular mentorship and clear feedback.
Experience leading teams through organizational change or adopting new technologies (e.g., integrating AI tools into development workflows to drive automation and process efficiency).
Prior experience in the collaboration, partner-facing portal, or B2B SaaS space is highly desirable.
Collab Hiring
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.
We are Cisco, and our power starts with you.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
- 7+ years professional software engineering experience.
- 3+ years in a formal leadership or management capacity.
- Proven track record leading high-performing engineering teams within a SaaS or cloud-based environment.
- Comprehensive understanding of modern web technologies, scalable API design, and cloud-native architectures.
- Demonstrated ability to manage complex, multi-functional projects and consistently deliver high-quality software on schedule.
- Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills; ability to lead, mentor, and inspire distributed teams.
- Proven experience defining and executing technical roadmaps aligned to organizational goals.
- Experience managing stakeholder relationships at Senior Manager and Director levels.
- Experience architecting or managing large-scale, distributed systems or SaaS platforms.
- Track record coaching and developing high-performing engineering teams; fostering CI/CD, security, and observability practices.
- Experience leading teams through organizational change or adopting new technologies (e.g., integrating AI tools).
- Prior experience in collaboration, partner-facing portal, or B2B SaaS space.
Cisco Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Cisco and has not been reviewed or approved by Cisco.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is described as robust with multiple plan options and access to onsite/virtual LifeConnections Health Centers on major campuses. Company materials also highlight mental-health resources and comprehensive preventive care, supporting strong core medical benefits.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time away includes company‑wide recharge days, a paid birthday, a year‑end shutdown, and paid Critical Time Off for emergencies. Paid volunteer days further expand opportunities to step away and recharge.
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Parental & Family Support — Policies include a global minimum for paid parental leave for primary caregivers, caregiving concierge services, and on‑site children’s learning centers in select locations. In the U.S., family‑building support is consolidated under Carrot with a defined lifetime maximum, indicating structured assistance across fertility, preservation, adoption, and surrogacy.
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What We Do
Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) enables people to make powerful connections--whether in business, education, philanthropy, or creativity. Cisco hardware, software, and service offerings are used to create the Internet solutions that make networks possible--providing easy access to information anywhere, at any time. Cisco was founded in 1984 by a small group of computer scientists from Stanford University. Since the company's inception, Cisco engineers have been leaders in the development of Internet Protocol (IP)-based networking technologies. Today, with more than 71,000 employees worldwide, this tradition of innovation continues with industry-leading products and solutions in the company's core development areas of routing and switching, as well as in advanced technologies such as home networking, IP telephony, optical networking, security, storage area networking, and wireless technology. In addition to its products, Cisco provides a broad range of service offerings, including technical support and advanced services. Cisco sells its products and services, both directly through its own sales force as well as through its channel partners, to large enterprises, commercial businesses, service providers, and consumers.
