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Software Engineer, Backend – Webex Signaling

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Base Salary

$138k - $228k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design, implement, and operate cloud-native Webex Signaling microservices.
  • Develop Java backend services using Spring and Spring Boot.
  • Build reliable, scalable, secure, manageable, and supportable distributed systems.
  • Enhance telemetry, analytics, monitoring, and observability systems.
  • Use AI-assisted software engineering tools across requirements, design, coding, testing, review, documentation, deployment, monitoring, and incident response.
  • Validate AI-generated code, designs, tests, documentation, and recommendations for correctness, security, privacy, performance, maintainability, and licensing considerations.
  • Serve as a quality gatekeeper for code, architecture, designs, and scalable implementation approaches.
  • Align product teams, architectural decisions, and implementation.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
  • At least 3 years of professional software development experience with Java.
  • At least 2 years of experience with Spring and Spring Boot.
  • At least 2 years of backend software engineering experience.
  • At least 2 years of software development lifecycle experience, including design, implementation, testing, deployment, and production support.
  • At least 1 year of experience using AI tools to improve productivity and efficiency.
  • Preferred: at least 2 years building large-scale distributed applications with Cassandra, Kafka, and Redis.
  • Preferred: at least 2 years with API design, JSON, containerized systems, and scalable microservices.
  • Preferred: at least 2 years designing or operating telemetry, monitoring, and analytics systems.
  • Preferred: at least 2 years with Kubernetes, cloud platforms, CI/CD pipelines, and production observability.
  • Preferred: at least 2 years working with SQL and NoSQL databases at scale.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance; 401(k) with Cisco matching contribution; paid parental leave; disability coverage; and basic life insurance.
  • Potential eligibility for Cisco restricted stock unit grants and annual bonuses for non-sales roles.
  • Paid holidays, floating holiday, birthday day off, year-end shutdown, personal wellness days, vacation or flexible vacation time, sick time, and additional family emergency leave subject to Cisco policies.
  • Optional paid volunteer time of up to 10 days per year.
  • The position is restricted to work that the U.S. government specifies can only be performed by a U.S. citizen on U.S. soil.

Tech Stack

Apache CassandraApache KafkaJavaKubernetesRedisSpring BootSQL

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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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