Staff Software Engineer

🔥 13 hours ago

🏄 California, Colorado, +2 more states – Remote

🏄 California – Remote ⛰️ Colorado – Remote 🌲 North Carolina – Remote ☕ Washington – Remote

💵 $163.6k - $234.6k / year

⏰ Full Time

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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

• Own features end-to-end across the complete software development lifecycle including AI, spanning requirements gathering, technical design, implementation, testing, automation, deployment, and ongoing operational ownership in production • Translate customer and business needs into clear technical solutions, making thoughtful trade-offs that balance speed, quality, and reliability • Design, build, and maintain highly scalable, distributed systems that handle large volumes of data • Identify and resolve pre-production bottlenecks and production issues, improving system resilience and performance • Participate in design and code reviews, contributing to shared engineering standards and long-term system health • Partner closely with product managers, SREs, and cross-functional teams to deliver meaningful customer outcomes • Participate in a rotating on-call schedule, diagnosing and resolving production issues to ensure reliability and customer trust • Mentor junior engineers and contribute to a culture of learning, ownership, and continuous improvement

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience • 8+ years of professional experience in software engineering and proficiency in at least one programming language, such as Go, Python, or Java • 5+ years of experience in the design and implementation of distributed systems, including databases, distributed file systems, concurrency control, consistency models with API communication paradigms, including REST • 2+ years of experience with CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes, container ecosystems, and microservices-based architectures (preferred) • 3+ years of experience working with public cloud providers, such as AWS, GCP, or Azure (preferred) • 5+ years of experience with debugging, troubleshooting, and the use of observability and diagnostic tools (preferred) • Experience developing or deploying applications using LLMs, RAG pipelines, MCP, and multi-agent frameworks (preferred)

🏖️ 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 • 10 paid holidays per full calendar year • 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 • flexible vacation time off program • 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 from one calendar year to the next • Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer