Principal Engineer

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Meet The Team

Splunk, a Cisco company, is building a safer, more resilient digital world with an endtoend, fullstack platform designed for hybrid, multicloud environments. Our work spans networking, security, observability, and customer experience - designing and deploying foundation models that enhance reliability, strengthen security, prevent downtime, and deliver predictive insights across Splunk Observability, Security, and Platform at enterprise scale. You'll be part of a culture that values technical excellence, impactdriven innovation, and multi-functional collaboration - all within a flexible, growthoriented environment.

As a Principal Engineer, you will be a key member for driving the strategic vision, development, and delivery of Cloud Native components at Splunk. You will work with multiple high-performing and distributed engineering teams, setting technical direction, establishing clear objectives, and ensuring the successful execution of our product roadmap.

Your Impact

• Provide strategic leadership and direction to multiple software engineering teams, including managers, senior managers, and/or high-level individual contributors.
• Accountable for establishing annual organizational objectives and priorities, ensuring the performance and results of a key software engineering area.
• Contribute significantly to the development of product strategy, collaboratively working with product leaders and cross-functional teams.
• Manage multiple teams with complimentary, but different focal areas to include comprehensive management responsibilities, fostering growth and development within your teams.
• Support process optimization within your team and provide input to the larger team to increase operational efficiency and software delivery.
• Accountable for the execution commitments of the team and the subsequent execution performance against those commitments

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field with 15+ years of relevant experience
• Minimum of 5+ years of direct supervisory experience leading software engineering teams.
• Demonstrated experience in developing and executing long-range technical plans for major software initiatives in cloud and non-cloud solutions.
• Proven track record of establishing organizational objectives and consistently achieving performance targets for a significant functional area.
• Experience contributing to product or functional business strategy within a technology company.
• Strong background in modern software development practices (CI/CD, DevOps, Agile)

Preferred Qualifications

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Master's in computer science, Engineering with 8+ years of relevant experience.
• Demonstrated commitment to fostering a culture of compliance, ethical conduct, and continuous improvement within engineering organizations.
• Enterprise security program experience defining overall security strategy, compliance strategy, IT architecture, etc.
• Experience using AI for Development and Operations
• Cybersecurity product development and subject matter expertise

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.

Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location, market conditions, job-related skillset, experience, qualifications, education, certifications, and/or training. The full salary range for certain locations is listed below. For locations not listed below, the recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.

U.S. employees are offered benefits, subject to Cisco's plan eligibility rules, which include medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, paid parental leave, short and long-term disability coverage, and basic life insurance. Please see the Cisco careers site to discover more benefits and perks. Employees may be eligible to receive grants of Cisco restricted stock units, which vest following continued employment with Cisco for defined periods of time.

U.S. employees are eligible for paid time away as described below, subject to Cisco's policies:

• 10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees

• 1 paid day off for employee's birthday, paid year-end holiday shutdown, and 4 paid days off for personal wellness determined by Cisco

• Non-exempt employees** receive 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year, accrued at rate of 4.92 hours per pay period for full-time employees

• Exempt employees participate in Cisco's flexible vacation time off program, which has no defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use (subject to availability and some business limitations)

• 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter, and up to 80 hours ofunused sick timecarried forwardfrom one calendar yearto the next

• Additional paid time away may be requested to deal with critical or emergency issues for family members

• Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer

For non-sales roles, employees are also eligible to earn annual bonuses subject to Cisco's policies.

Employees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, which is split between quota and non-quota components, subject to the applicable Cisco plan. For quota-based incentive pay, Cisco typically pays as follows:

• .75% of incentive target for each 1% of revenue attainment up to 50% of quota;

• 1.5% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 50% and 75%;

• 1% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 75% and 100%; and

• Once performance exceeds 100% attainment, incentive rates are at or above 1% for each 1% of attainment with no cap on incentive compensation.

For non-quota-based sales performance elements such as strategic sales objectives, Cisco may pay 0% up to 125% of target. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid.

The applicable full salary ranges for this position, by specific state, are listed below:

New York City Metro Area:

Non-Metro New York state & Washington state:

* For quota-based sales roles on Cisco's sales plan, the ranges provided in this posting include base pay and sales target incentive compensation combined.

** Employees in Illinois, whether exempt or non-exempt, will participate in a unique time off program to meet local requirements.