Meet the Team

We’re a high-impact, fast paced infrastructure and data services team within Cisco, supporting business-critical data platforms that drive intelligent decision-making across products and services. Our group sits at the intersection of product strategy, engineering, and data innovation — responsible for redefining complex business requirements into scalable, cloud-native data solutions. You’ll join a collaborative environment of team leaders, engineers, and technical architects passionate about solving meaningful problems with modern technology.

Your Impact

As a Product Owner / Developer, you will play a dual role — defining business and product requirements while contributing directly to the technical delivery. You’ll partner with collaborators across engineering, data, and business teams to translate goals into actionable roadmaps and measurable results.

Key Responsibilities

• Gather and define requirements aligned with strategic business goals and customer value.
• Help the team leaders maintain and prioritize the product backlog, ensuring clarity, transparency, and focus on impact.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to design and build scalable data and automation solutions (50%+ of the time)
• Contribute to development, testing, and deployment of modern data pipelines using Apache Airflow, Apache Spark, and AWS cloud services (ECS, Lambda, Glue, S3).
• Balance short-term delivery objectives with long-term technical vision.
• Track and communicate key performance metrics that demonstrate business outcomes.
  
  

Who You Are

You are both a strategic problem solver and a technical contributor who thrives in complex, data-driven environments. You bring a strong business approach and a passion for translating strategy into working systems that scale.

You Excel At

• Collaborating across teams and simplifying complex needs into executable plans.
• Combining a product-centric focus with hands-on technical ownership.
• Working iteratively and pragmatically toward measurable business outcomes.
  
  

Minimum Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional experience in software engineering, data engineering, or product ownership roles.
• Strong development experience with Python or Golang (both – advantage).
• Demonstrated ability to translate business requirements into technical roadmaps and deliverables.
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments and managing product backlogs.
• Experience with orchestration and containerization (Kubernetes, Docker).
• Familiarity with Linux and cloud infrastructure (especially AWS).
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or related field.
• Familiarity with data warehousing and modern data stack technologies.
• Proven hands-on experience with Apache Airflow, and Apache Spark.
• Knowledge of message queues and real-time systems (RabbitMQ, Redis, Kinesis).
• Knowledge of DevOps and CI/CD tools.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Ability to balance technical depth with strategic vision.
  
  

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.