# Leader, Software Engineering

Meet the Team: Cisco Smart Spaces and Wireless Engineering is pioneering the future of smart workspaces, IoT sensor connectivity, and cloud-managed infrastructure. We bridge networking hardware and cloud intelligence, enabling location analytics, energy optimization, asset tracking, and partner ecosystem integrations for enterprise customers globally. Your Impact: As a Senior Manager, you will lead, inspire, and grow high-performing software development and sustaining engineering teams in Bangalore. Provide technical and people leadership across key initiatives, including Catalyst/Meraki BLE firmware, CMX sustaining, Native Connect, and partner IoT integrations. Partner closely with Product Management (PLM), Platform Architecture, and QA to align technical roadmaps, sprint execution, and multi-topology release commitments. Champion engineering excellence, code quality, test automation (CI/CD, CoverageHub), and platform security (EU CRA standards). Foster talent development, mentoring senior engineers and driving career growth within the Bangalore engineering center. Minimum Qualifications: 12+ years of software engineering experience in networking, embedded systems, or cloud/I

- **Id**: 4324405
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/cisco-systems-leader-software-engineering-11>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Bengaluru, India
- **Countries**: IN
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 12
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-13T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-13
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-14T23:03:14Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 2
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3919
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Network Security, Unified Communications, Endpoint Security, Observability & APM

## Company

- **Id**: 90
- **Name**: Cisco Systems
- **Domain**: cisco.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/cisco-systems>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 83
- **Open postings**: 284
- **Ghost share**: 0.063
- **Stale share**: 0.447
- **Repost share**: 0.106
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 26
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-14T05:58:10Z

## Technologies

- **C++** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **gRPC** — Optional: no
- **Linux** — Optional: no
- **MQTT** — Optional: no
- **Rest API** — Optional: no
- **RTOS** — Optional: no
- **Wi-Fi** — Optional: no
- **Zigbee** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 2

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 12
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **India** — Iso: IN; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-14T23:03:14Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 2
- **Expected fill days**: 26
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-15T00:10:04Z

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