1 day ago
Base Salary
$138k - $256k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, test, and operate customer-facing REST APIs and backend services in Go.
- Lead small-to-medium features from technical design through coding, testing, code review, and production.
- Own production services, including monitoring, on-call shifts, postmortems, and root-cause analysis.
- Write secure, well-tested code and provide thoughtful code reviews.
- Collaborate with product managers, designers, frontend engineers, and adjacent backend teams.
- Mentor junior engineers and interns through pairing, design feedback, and code review.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree and five years of related experience, or a master's degree and three years of related experience.
- Experience with backend languages such as Go, Java, C++, or Python.
- Experience designing, building, and operating production REST APIs and backend services.
- Experience with data structures, algorithms, software design, automated testing, production debugging, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Experience with cloud-native architecture on AWS, Azure, or GCP, including Docker and Kubernetes.
- Preferred: experience with high-volume data pipelines, streaming technologies, data lakes, SQL, distributed systems, workflow orchestration, durable jobs, or long-running operations.
- Preferred: strong communication skills and the ability to explain technical decisions to diverse stakeholders.
- Preferred: enthusiasm for AI tools across the software development lifecycle and accountability for AI-assisted output.
Benefits
- Hybrid/remote work environment based in Seattle, PST.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with Cisco matching contributions, paid parental leave, disability coverage, and basic life insurance, subject to eligibility.
- Paid holidays, floating holiday, birthday leave, year-end shutdown, personal wellness days, vacation or flexible time off, and sick time.
- Optional paid volunteer days and additional paid time away for critical family or emergency issues.
- Eligibility for annual bonuses, Cisco restricted stock unit grants, and other benefits subject to company policies.
About Cisco
Cisco designs and sells networking, security, and collaboration platforms for enterprises, service providers, and governments, spanning routers and switches, Wi‑Fi, firewalls, zero‑trust, observability, and cloud-managed IT (Meraki) plus Webex. Its business model mixes hardware, software subscriptions, and support/consulting services. Founded in 1984 and headquartered in San Jose, California, Cisco is a public company traded on Nasdaq and serves customers across data centers, campuses, and service provider networks.