Sr Software Engineer, License Manager

Job description

Meet the Team The License Manager team builds and evolves the core licensing and entitlement capabilities that support Splunk products. Our work enables customers to understand, manage, and remain compliant with their licensed usage through reliable, secure, and high-performance software. We are a collaborative engineering team focused on backend and distributed systems development, working closely with product management, support, and partner engineering teams. The team values strong technical ownership, thoughtful design, and continuous improvement. What makes this team exciting is the opportunity to shape foundational platform capabilities that directly impact customer trust, product reliability, and business operations. Your Impact Design, build, test, and maintain core License Manager capabilities using C++ and Go to support secure, scalable, and reliable product functionality. Lead complex features from technical design through production delivery, balancing correctness, performance, security, and long-term maintainability. Diagnose and resolve complex production issues to improve system resilience, observability, and operational readiness. Partner with product management, support, and engineering stakeholders to translate customer and business needs into robust technical solutions. Mentor engineers, contribute to technical design discussions, and help raise the engineering bar through high-quality code, documentation, and engineering best practices. Minimum Qualifications Bachelor’s degree plus 6 years of related experience. Professional software development experience in C++ or Go, including designing, building, and maintaining production backend, systems, or distributed software. Strong understanding of software design, data structures, algorithms, debugging, testing, and code review practices. Experience investigating complex reliability, scale, or performance issues in production systems. Ability to work independently, lead medium-sized technical initiatives, and write clean, maintainable, and secure code. Preferred Qualifications Experience with Splunk Enterprise, licensing, entitlements, metering, or other platform capabilities. Experience with Python for tooling, automation, or test development. Experience with large-scale, highly available, or customer-managed software. Familiarity with Linux-based development and production environments. Experience mentoring engineers and improving developer workflows, test coverage, operational tooling, or engineering standards. 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.