12 days ago
Base Salary
$168k - $245k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, test, and improve high-performance software agents.
- Build software for Linux, Unix, and Windows across aarch64, x86_64, s390x, and ppc64_le architectures.
- Develop network policy enforcement functionality controlled by a central controller.
- Build capabilities that monitor and protect container-based deployments.
- Analyze interactions among applications, processes, and operating system kernels.
- Participate in design, prototyping, production deployment, troubleshooting, and ongoing product improvement.
- Collaborate with software, data engineering, data science, UX/UI, and technical support teams.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree with at least 5 years of software development experience, or a master's degree with at least 4 years of software development experience.
- Experience with systems programming in C or C++, including multithreaded and multiprocess application development.
- Knowledge of operating system fundamentals, including threads, processes, file systems, networking, and inter-process communication.
- Experience debugging and troubleshooting complex software systems.
- Preferred experience with Windows systems programming, networking technologies, host-based firewalls, crash dump analysis, Golang, operating-system kernels or other low-level components, and containerized, cloud, or distributed computing environments.
Benefits
- Remote position open to candidates located within the United States; Bay Area candidates are requested to work onsite a few days per week.
- 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.
- Potential eligibility for Cisco restricted stock unit grants and annual bonuses for non-sales roles.
- Paid holidays, floating holidays, birthday and wellness days, vacation or flexible vacation time, sick time, family emergency leave, and optional paid volunteer days.
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.