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Software Engineering Technical Lead - Backend | 12+ Yrs | Bangalore

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15 days ago
Bengaluru, IndiaStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Build highly scalable distributed solutions across the stack for Meraki Dashboard and Cisco Catalyst features.
  • Own initiatives from conception through production release and define project milestones and progress metrics.
  • Make architectural and system design decisions, communicate trade-offs, and mentor other engineers.
  • Improve system reliability, performance, and operational excellence through testing, telemetry, and alerting.
  • Resolve software defects, networking issues, and customer-reported problems.
  • Partner with engineering managers, product managers, and cross-functional teams on technical and business priorities.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field with 12+ years of related experience, or a master’s degree with 8+ years, or a PhD with 5+ years.
  • At least 3 years of professional coding experience with web backend technologies such as Ruby on Rails or similar, plus Go, Ruby, or Python.
  • Experience making architectural and system design choices, communicating trade-offs, and mentoring team members.
  • Practical experience with emulation and simulation of networking devices.
  • Experience leading projects by defining well-scoped milestones from loosely defined business problems and identifying progress metrics.
  • Preferred experience with networking devices, Cisco CML, systems software design, large-scale distributed networking solutions, and cross-functional or geographically distributed engineering teams.

Tech Stack

GoPythonRubyRuby on Rails

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About Cisco

10,000+ employees

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.

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