Cisco

Software Engineer

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1 day ago
Milpitas, CA, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$126k - $177k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, test, deploy, and support cloud-native SaaS applications and services.
  • Build scalable, resilient, and secure distributed systems using microservices architecture.
  • Develop and operate services in AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud environments.
  • Deploy and operate production microservices on Kubernetes and AWS EKS.
  • Implement service automation, monitoring, observability, and telemetry pipelines.
  • Analyze metrics, logs, traces, and alerts to improve reliability and customer experience.
  • Handle production configuration, operational readiness, and troubleshooting across application, infrastructure, database, and networking layers.
  • Review designs, implementations, test plans, and operational procedures.
  • Collaborate with engineering, product management, security, SRE, DevOps, and customer-facing teams.

Requirements

  • A recently completed or soon-to-be-completed master’s degree with zero years of work experience, or a bachelor’s degree with two years of work experience, in computer science, software engineering, or a related field.
  • At least two years of software engineering experience in a SaaS product company.
  • At least two years of hands-on experience deploying and operating production microservices on Kubernetes or AWS EKS.
  • Programming experience in Java, Python, or Go and experience implementing backend services and APIs.
  • Preferred experience includes public cloud SaaS operations, networking fundamentals, debugging across application and cloud layers, and cloud security or identity management.
  • Preferred knowledge includes generative AI, prompt engineering, observability tools, telemetry and service-health systems, distributed data stores, cybersecurity, zero trust, and IoT security.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance; 401(k) matching; paid parental leave; disability coverage; and basic life insurance.
  • Paid holidays, floating holidays, birthday and wellness days, year-end shutdown, vacation or flexible time off, sick time, and emergency family leave.
  • Up to 10 paid volunteer days per year.
  • Potential Cisco restricted stock unit grants and annual bonuses for non-sales roles.
  • The posting applies to U.S. and/or Canada locations, with location-specific salary ranges and benefits subject to eligibility and company policies.

Tech Stack

AWSAzureClickHouseElasticsearchGoGoogle CloudGrafanaJavaKibanaKubernetesPrometheusPython

Categories

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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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