Meet the Team
Join the Webex Partner Hub engineering team, where we build the backbone for our global partner ecosystem. We are responsible for the platforms that enable thousands of partners to provision, manage, and scale Webex services. As a Technical Leader, you will work at the intersection of high-scale cloud architecture and partner-centric innovation, crafting the future of how Cisco collaborates with its partners worldwide.
Your Impact
As a Technical Leader, you will serve as the authority for the Partner Hub. You will define the strategy, ensuring our platform remains and as we integrate sophisticated AI and automation. You will influence engineering standards across the organization, mentor talent, and drive multi-functional initiatives that bridge the gap between sophisticated system architecture and business-critical partner outcomes. Your work will directly impact the efficiency and revenue growth of our partner network.
Key Responsibilities
Define and drive the multi-year technical roadmap for the Partner Hub, ensuring alignment with Cisco’s broader cloud and teamwork strategy.
Act as a technical link between product, engineering, and business stakeholders, driving consensus on sophisticated architectural decisions that span multiple business units.
Set the engineering standards for code quality, system reliability, and security. Lead the resolution of the most critical, system-wide technical challenges.
Mentor senior engineers and architects, encouraging a culture of technical curiosity and innovation. Identify and champion the adoption of new technologies (e.g., AI/ML, sophisticated cloud-native patterns) to maintain our strong position.
Translate high-level business goals into technical requirements, ensuring that our platform architecture supports feature delivery without compromising stability.
Minimum Qualifications
Bachelor’s or Master's degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
10+ years of software engineering leadership, with a documented history of architecting and delivering large-scale, enterprise-grade infrastructure.
Expert-level mastery of Enterprise Java and Spring Boot, with extensive experience architecting, deploying, and maintaining sophisticated microservices ecosystems.
Proven ability to lead technical initiatives at an organizational scale, acting as the primary point of accountability for system performance and architectural integrity.
Deep expertise in distributed systems, scalable architecture, and the full software development lifecycle (SDLC).
Exceptional strategic communication skills, with the ability to influence multi-functional partners and lead technical consensus across global teams.
Preferred Qualifications
Extensive experience architecting, securing, and scaling mission-critical solutions in AWS, GCP, or Azure.
Recognized industry expertise (e.g., patent portfolio, publications, or contributions to open-source projects).
Experience leading the architectural transformation of legacy systems to modern, scalable cloud platforms.
Deep domain knowledge in B2B SaaS, partner-facing portals, or collaboration ecosystems.
Strong track record of mentoring senior technical staff and building a high-performance engineering culture.
Experience with AI/ML integration in large-scale production environments.
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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, or equivalent experience, in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field
- 10+ years of software engineering leadership experience
- Documented experience architecting and delivering large-scale, enterprise-grade infrastructure
- Expert-level mastery of Enterprise Java and Spring Boot
- Extensive experience architecting, deploying, and maintaining microservices ecosystems
- Experience leading technical initiatives at organizational scale with accountability for system performance and architectural integrity
- Deep expertise in distributed systems, scalable architecture, and the full software development lifecycle
- Exceptional strategic communication and cross-functional technical consensus-building skills
- Experience architecting, securing, and scaling mission-critical solutions in AWS, GCP, or Azure
- Recognized industry expertise through patents, publications, or open-source contributions
- Experience transforming legacy systems into modern, scalable cloud platforms
- Domain knowledge in B2B SaaS, partner-facing portals, or collaboration ecosystems
- Experience mentoring senior technical staff and building high-performance engineering cultures
- Experience integrating AI/ML into large-scale production environments
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.
