Meet the Team

The License Manager team builds and evolves the core licensing and entitlement capabilities that power Splunk products. Our work helps customers understand, manage, and stay compliant with their licensed usage through reliable, secure, and high-performance software. We are a collaborative engineering team focused on backend and systems development, with strong partnerships across product management, support, and engineering. The team combines technical depth with a strong sense of ownership and continuous improvement. What makes this team exciting is the opportunity to work on foundational platform capabilities that directly impact customer trust, product reliability, and business operations.

Your Impact

Build, test, debug, and maintain core License Manager capabilities using C++ to support secure, reliable, and scalable product functionality. Deliver well-scoped features, fixes, and enhancements from design through implementation and completion. Write clean, maintainable, and secure code with strong unit and integration test coverage to improve product quality and reliability. Investigate product and production issues to identify root causes and contribute to durable fixes. Collaborate with senior engineers, product management, support, and engineering partners to improve system behavior, deliver customer value, and grow ownership over broader technical areas over time.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree plus 3 years of related experience.
• Professional experience delivering and maintaining production software in C++.
• Solid foundation in software design, debugging, testing, data structures, and algorithms.
• Ability to troubleshoot technical issues methodically and learn unfamiliar parts of a system.
• Ability to work independently on defined work and write maintainable, well-tested, and secure code.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with backend, systems, distributed, or high-performance software.
• Experience with Python for tooling, automation, or test development.
• Familiarity with Linux-based development and production environments.
• Experience with code reviews, CI/CD, automated testing, and operational tooling.
• Interest in growing into broader feature ownership and technical leadership.

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.