Cisco

Software Engineer

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4 days ago
Milpitas, CA, USAMid Level / Senior
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$168k - $245k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Investigate complex customer escalations by analyzing software behavior, logs, traces, and code.
  • Reproduce issues in lab environments and develop code fixes, diagnostic tools, or workarounds.
  • Partner with development, test, and support teams to validate solutions and communicate progress.
  • Use escalation patterns to recommend product improvements that strengthen reliability and customer experience.
  • Apply AI, machine learning, generative AI, and automation to analyze logs, telemetry, traces, and case data and improve troubleshooting workflows.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering, computer engineering, or a related field and 5+ years of professional software experience, or a master’s degree and 2+ years of experience.
  • Experience reading, debugging, or modifying code in production software.
  • Experience with Linux operating systems and operating Kubernetes or containerized microservices.
  • Experience with networking or TCP/IP fundamentals.
  • Preferred: hands-on experience debugging distributed data stores including PostgreSQL and MongoDB.
  • Preferred: experience resolving complex enterprise software customer escalations and reproducing issues in lab or test environments.
  • Preferred: experience applying AI, machine learning, or generative AI tools to troubleshooting, engineering workflows, logs, telemetry, traces, or case data.
  • Preferred: experience developing diagnostic tools or automation and communicating technical findings across engineering, support, and product teams.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work based in the San Jose/Milpitas office.
  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with Cisco matching contributions, paid parental leave, disability coverage, and basic life insurance.
  • Employees may be eligible for Cisco restricted stock unit grants.
  • Paid holidays, birthday leave, year-end shutdown, personal wellness days, vacation or flexible time off, sick time, and family emergency leave.
  • Optional paid volunteer time and potential annual bonuses for non-sales roles.

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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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