Senior Software Engineer, Backend

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🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

💵 $167.7k - $245.2k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

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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

• Develop, scale, and maintain platforms and services supporting Cisco services, data platforms, and the Meraki Dashboard • Build infrastructure and data pipelines to power data-driven decisions • Design, build, ship, analyze, and maintain scalable distributed enterprise software solutions for telemetry data services • Build and maintain backend components using C++ in a Linux environment • Improve reliability, performance, scalability, testability, maintainability, observability, and developer experience • Collaborate with Engineering groups and teams throughout Cisco to understand data requirements and customer requests

🎯 Requirements

• Experience analyzing, scaling, troubleshooting, and debugging distributed systems • Experience developing software using C++11 or newer standards • Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines using GitLab or GitHub • Experience deploying applications using containerization and Kubernetes • Experience designing and querying relational databases using SQL, PostgreSQL, or MySQL • Experience utilizing automated testing frameworks within the software development lifecycle • Experience utilizing LLM-based coding assistants within the software development lifecycle • Programming experience in Rust, Scala, or Python preferred • Experience with OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, or Grafana preferred • Experience with LaunchDarkly or similar feature flagging tools preferred • Experience maintaining database software preferred • Experience or willingness to work in an agile environment preferred • Ability to comment on the difference between prompt engineering, context engineering, and agentic engineering preferred • Must be a U.S. Person, as defined in the posting, due to potential work in FedRAMP High or IL-5 environments • Certain work may require being a U.S. citizen on U.S. soil

🏖️ 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 requirements • 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 policies