Lead Software Engineer, Web Platform

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  • Location:
    Seattle, Washington, US
  • Area of Interest
    Engineer - Software
  • Compensation Range
    146000 USD - 205400 USD
  • Job Type
    Professional
  • Technology Interest
    Software Development
  • Job Id
    1436773

Who We Are

Cisco ThousandEyes is a Digital Experience Assurance platform that empowers organizations to deliver flawless digital experiences across every network – even the ones they don’t own. Powered by AI and an unmatched set of cloud, internet and enterprise network telemetry data, ThousandEyes enables IT teams to proactively detect, diagnose, and remediate issues – before they impact end- user experiences.

ThousandEyes is deeply integrated across the entire Cisco technology portfolio and beyond, helping customers deploy at scale while also delivering AI-powered assurance insights within Cisco’s leading Networking, Security, Collaboration, and Observability portfolios.

What We Do

The Application Window is expected to close on 4/10/25. However, the job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received. 

The Web Platform team is passionate about building common abstractions that are shared by the various ThousandEyes development teams. Our mission is to evangelize standards, patterns, and best practices for software design and development at ThousandEyes. This is a frontend-leaning software development engineering role focused on platform-wide development, where you’ll work on the underpinnings of our web application to ensure that it runs smoothly for our end users and is intuitive to build for other ThousandEyes developers. We value engineers who have an excitement for learning new skills, an eagerness to venture into unknown problem spaces, and a keen ability to identify and correct problems as they encounter them. Web Platform developers maintain flexible skill sets and growth mindsets, as we’re often tagged to assist with a variety of topics within the wide-spanning layer supporting all web application architecture at ThousandEyes.

Lately, we’ve worked on impactful projects such as:

  • Upgrading the version of our core frontend framework (Vue.js) across all services
  • Modernizing and setting new standards for page rendering strategy
  • Splitting the ThousandEyes core monolith into independently deployable microfrontends
  • Migrating and upgrading core JavaScript utilities, mitigating potential security vulnerabilities
  • Improving application-wide UI elements such as our menus, support chat, and customer satisfaction surveys

What You’ll Do

The Application Window is expected to close on 3/10/25. However, the job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received. 

  • Improving the core frontend technology that enables the ThousandEyes engineering organization to scale and keeps developers happy, including build processes and test frameworks
  • Evangelizing modern frontend architecture and development best practices, raising the bar for frontend development at ThousandEyes through implementation, presentations, and documentation
  • Boosting our application’s web performance, tracking core web vitals
  • Exploring new technologies that will benefit our workflow and sharing comprehensive opinions on architectural/technical decisions
  • Providing support to other engineers on the team and throughout the engineering organization as they build upon our team’s work to achieve their goals

As part of this role, you will also be responsible for maintaining services in a FedRAMP compliant environment, therefore, must be a U.S. Person (i.e. U.S. citizen, U.S. national, lawful permanent resident, asylee, or refugee). This position may also perform work that the U.S. government has specified can only be performed by a U.S. citizen on U.S. soil.

Qualifications

  • Experience with modern frontend frameworks/libraries and knowledge of the differences between them (e.g. Vue, React, Angular, etc)
  • Experience with Java, Golang or similar programming languages.
  • Comfortable digging deep to solve problems, prototyping solutions, and exploring new technologies and architectural patterns. 
  • Ability to advocate for frontend development best practices and improve the frontend stack across an engineering organization
  • Proven track record of identifying problems, proposing and selecting solutions, and executing them effectively
  • Comfortable collaborating, communicating, and driving change across multiple Engineering teams
  • Passion for sharing ideas, bringing others along, caring for teammates, and attracting other great developers to join our growing organization
Message to applicants applying to work in the U.S. and/or Canada:

When available, the salary range posted for this position reflects the projected hiring range for new hire, full-time salaries in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including equity or benefits. For non-sales roles the hiring ranges reflect base salary only; employees are also eligible to receive annual bonuses. Hiring ranges for sales positions include base and incentive compensation target. Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location and additional factors, including but not limited to skillset, experience, and relevant education, certifications, or training. Applicants may not be eligible for the full salary range based on their U.S. or Canada hiring location. The recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.

U.S. employees have access to quality medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, short and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance and numerous wellbeing offerings.

Employees receive up to twelve paid holidays per calendar year, which includes one floating holiday (for non-exempt employees), plus a day off for their birthday. Non-Exempt new hires accrue up to 16 days of vacation time off each year, at a rate of 4.92 hours per pay period. Exempt new hires participate in Cisco’s flexible Vacation Time Off policy, which does not place a defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use, but is subject to availability and some business limitations. All new hires are eligible for Sick Time Off subject to Cisco’s Sick Time Off Policy and will have eighty (80) hours of sick time off provided on their hire date and on January 1st of each year thereafter.  Up to 80 hours of unused sick time will be carried forward from one calendar year to the next such that the maximum number of sick time hours an employee may have available is 160 hours. Employees in Illinois have a unique time off program designed specifically with local requirements in mind. All employees also have access to paid time away to deal with critical or emergency issues. We offer additional paid time to volunteer and give back to the community.

Employees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, which is split between quota and non-quota components. 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 up to 125% of target. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid.

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