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Base Salary
$187k - $268k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and operate scalable, highly available distributed storage and key-value services in cloud and on-premises environments.
- Build cloud-native services using C++, Go, Python, and related technologies.
- Lead features and projects from technical design through implementation, testing, deployment, and production validation.
- Develop secure, maintainable production code and unit tests while improving engineering practices.
- Contribute to architecture and technical design decisions focused on security, scalability, reliability, simplification, and user experience.
- Operate software deployed in Kubernetes-based and containerized environments, including monitoring and observability capabilities.
- Identify and resolve complex development and production risks and issues.
- Lead postmortems and root-cause analysis, drive corrective actions, and support on-call coverage and operational readiness.
- Apply secure coding practices, protect user privacy, and contribute to threat modeling.
- Partner with product management, design, engineering, architecture, and other teams on technical solutions.
- Scope work, estimate delivery, manage dependencies and workstreams, and communicate risks and trade-offs.
- Influence the software engineering roadmap through product innovation and engineering improvement ideas.
- Create technical design and customer-facing or user documentation.
- Mentor engineers through reviews, technical guidance, demonstrations, and knowledge sharing.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree with 8+ years of related experience, Master’s degree with 6+ years of related experience, or PhD with 3+ years of related experience.
- 7 years of experience developing production backend services and versioned APIs in Go, C++, or another systems programming language.
- 7 years of experience designing and operating production database-backed services using a graph, relational, or NoSQL database, including schema evolution, transaction handling, backup or recovery, or performance tuning.
- 7 years of experience designing production distributed systems involving consistency, replication, partitioning, routing, or failure recovery.
- 7 years of experience delivering and operating containerized services through CI/CD on Kubernetes in a public-cloud or on-premises environment.
- Preferred experience includes scalable distributed storage and key-value services, cloud-native services using C++, Go, and Python, Kubernetes-based deployments, and service architecture and implementation decisions.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement with onsite work in San Jose 2 to 3 days per week.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with matching contribution, paid parental leave, disability coverage, and basic life insurance.
- Paid holidays, birthday leave, year-end shutdown, personal wellness days, vacation or flexible vacation time, sick time, family emergency leave, and optional volunteer days.
- Eligibility for Cisco restricted stock units and annual bonuses subject to company policies.
- The application window is expected to close on 12/27/2026.
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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.