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Cisco

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1984

🔧 Hardware

🔐 Security

🏢 Enterprise

Hardware • Security • Enterprise

Cisco is a multinational technology company that provides networking hardware, software, and services to enterprises, service providers, and governments. It builds routers, switches, optical transceivers, programmable silicon, and edge computing platforms, and offers security, collaboration (Webex), observability, and AI-enabled software and support services to help organizations design, operate, and secure large-scale networks and data centers. Cisco also delivers professional services, training, and cloud-managed solutions to support digital transformation and AI-ready infrastructure.

📋 Description

• Work across the full stack to build highly scalable distributed solutions enabling user experiences and business growth • Ensure system reliability, performance, and operational excellence through tests, telemetry, and alerting • Own projects from conception through production release • Influence, facilitate, and collaborate across teams • Partner with EM/PM and collaborators to define team direction based on engineering and business priorities • Resolve software defects, networking issues, and customer-reported problems • Improve performance, scalability, and reliability • Define project milestones based on loosely defined business problems • Identify metrics to track project progress • Work across all layers of the stack in an agile engineering environment

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related technical field and 12+ years of related experience, or Master’s degree with 8+ years, or PhD with 5+ years of related experience • 3+ years of professional coding experience with web backend technologies such as Ruby on Rails or similar • Experience with Go, Ruby, or Python • Experience safely rolling services out to customers using feature flags, A/B tests, or similar techniques • Demonstrated experience making architectural and system design choices • Ability to communicate architectural trade-offs and coach team members • Practical experience with emulation and simulation of networking devices • Project leadership experience defining project stepping stones and identifying progress metrics • Ability to thrive in a fast-paced agile engineering team • Ability and willingness to solve open-ended problems across all stack layers • Preferred: experience with networking devices • Preferred: experience with Cisco CML • Preferred: systems software design or large-scale distributed networking solutions experience • Preferred: experience working across cross-functional or geographically distributed engineering teams

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, dental and vision insurance • 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution • Paid parental leave • Short- and long-term disability coverage • Basic life insurance • Cisco restricted stock unit grants may be available, subject to continued employment and vesting periods • 10 paid holidays per full calendar year • 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees • 1 paid day off for employee’s birthday • Paid year-end holiday shutdown • 4 paid days off for personal wellness • 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year for non-exempt employees • Flexible vacation time off program with no defined limit for eligible exempt employees, subject to availability and business limitations • 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter • Up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward • Additional paid time away for critical or emergency family issues • Optional 10 paid volunteer days per full calendar year • Annual bonuses for non-sales roles, subject to Cisco’s policies