7 days ago
Base Salary
$168k - $245k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, test, and maintain secure, scalable backend services for the Intersight cloud platform.
- Lead medium-sized features from technical design through production, including APIs, distributed services, documentation, risks, and architectural decisions.
- Diagnose production issues, participate in incident response, and lead root-cause analyses and corrective actions.
- Develop AI-enabled and agentic capabilities using retrieval-augmented generation, large language models, and MCP-based integrations.
- Review code and technical designs for correctness, security, scalability, reliability, and maintainability.
- Coordinate cross-team dependencies, estimates, milestones, risks, and delivery plans while contributing to the engineering roadmap.
- Mentor peers and junior engineers through technical guidance, design discussions, code reviews, documentation, and knowledge sharing.
- Contribute to threat modeling and secure coding, privacy, testing, automation, developer productivity, and system reliability improvements.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree plus 7 years of related experience, master’s degree plus 4 years, PhD plus 1 year, or equivalent related work experience.
- Significant experience designing and developing production software using Go, C, C++, Java, or Python.
- Experience designing, deploying, and operating cloud-native microservices and large-scale distributed systems on at least one major public-cloud platform.
- Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, software architecture, and API design.
- Experience independently leading technically complex software features from design through production while addressing scalability, performance, and reliability.
- AWS cloud experience is preferred.
- Experience developing enterprise management platforms for compute or AI infrastructure is preferred.
- Deep expertise designing and scaling MongoDB-backed systems, including data modeling, indexing, query optimization, replication, sharding, performance analysis, and production troubleshooting, is preferred.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance; 401(k) with Cisco matching; paid parental leave; disability coverage; and basic life insurance.
- Paid holidays, floating holidays, birthday leave, year-end shutdown, personal wellness days, vacation or flexible time off, sick time, and family emergency leave subject to policy and eligibility.
- Optional 10 paid volunteer days per year.
- Eligibility for Cisco restricted stock units and annual bonuses subject to applicable policies.
- The posting provides U.S. and Canada salary ranges and location-specific ranges; benefits and paid-time-off details vary by eligibility and location.
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.