Meet the Team
Voltron builds the shared platform behind Cisco Umbrella and Secure Service Edge experiences. We enable product teams to deliver secure, consistent customer journeys through the DashX shell, independently deployed microapps, shared UI and API libraries, cloud services, and delivery infrastructure. Our work creates leverage across the organization: a reliable platform lets every partner team move faster and serve customers better.
Your Impact
As a Software Engineer, you will independently deliver reliable platform capabilities that customer-facing microapps and services depend on. You will work across browser applications, shared libraries, cloud services, and delivery infrastructure, helping partner teams integrate safely and consistently while building depth in a broad technical environment.
• Design, build, test, and support features in the DashX shell, React microapps, shared frontend libraries, or supporting services.
• Deliver documented APIs, reusable components, configuration hooks, and upgrade paths that help partner microapp teams integrate with the Voltron platform.
• Use data from tests, production telemetry, and customer feedback to improve feature quality, reliability, and delivery decisions.
• Contribute to secure and observable production changes across authenticated APIs, AWS workloads, CI/CD pipelines, and customer data flows.
• Investigate defects and operational signals, help teams move forward through change or setbacks, and improve tests, monitoring, and runbooks.
Minimum Qualifications• 4+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• 2+ years of production experience building web applications using TypeScript, JavaScript, React, shared component libraries, micro frontend or remote-component architectures, or API client libraries.
• 1+ years of experience with Jenkins, AWS services such as Lambda, ECS, DynamoDB, CloudWatch, S3, or CloudFront, or infrastructure as code.
• 1+ years of experience designing or consuming HTTP APIs and working with authentication and authorization mechanisms.
• 1+ years of experience writing automated unit, integration, or end-to-end tests and using CI/CD pipelines to validate changes.
• Experience using Git-based source control and a code-review workflow.
Preferred Qualifications
• Experience in a security, SaaS, or multi-tenant product environment.
• Experience with Rust, Go, Python, or a comparable programming language.
• Demonstrated use of data-backed insights to refine project outcomes and improve technical decisions.
• Demonstrated ability to encourage diverse perspectives, help teammates develop relevant skills, and maintain forward progress through change.
Why Cisco?At Cisco, we’re revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era – and beyond. We’ve been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint.
Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you’ll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere.
We are Cisco, and our power starts with you.
Skills Required
- 4+ years of professional software engineering experience.
- 2+ years production experience building web applications using TypeScript and JavaScript with React.
- Experience with shared component libraries, micro frontend or remote-component architectures, or API client libraries.
- 1+ years experience with Jenkins, AWS services (Lambda, ECS, DynamoDB, CloudWatch, S3, CloudFront), or infrastructure as code.
- 1+ years designing or consuming HTTP APIs and working with authentication and authorization mechanisms.
- 1+ years writing automated unit, integration, or end-to-end tests and using CI/CD pipelines.
- Experience using Git-based source control and a code-review workflow.
- Experience in a security, SaaS, or multi-tenant product environment.
- Experience with Rust, Go, Python, or comparable programming languages.
- Demonstrated use of data-backed insights to refine project outcomes and improve technical decisions.
- Demonstrated ability to encourage diverse perspectives and help teammates develop relevant skills.
Cisco Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Cisco and has not been reviewed or approved by Cisco.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is described as robust with multiple plan options and access to onsite/virtual LifeConnections Health Centers on major campuses. Company materials also highlight mental-health resources and comprehensive preventive care, supporting strong core medical benefits.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time away includes company‑wide recharge days, a paid birthday, a year‑end shutdown, and paid Critical Time Off for emergencies. Paid volunteer days further expand opportunities to step away and recharge.
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Parental & Family Support — Policies include a global minimum for paid parental leave for primary caregivers, caregiving concierge services, and on‑site children’s learning centers in select locations. In the U.S., family‑building support is consolidated under Carrot with a defined lifetime maximum, indicating structured assistance across fertility, preservation, adoption, and surrogacy.
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What We Do
Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) enables people to make powerful connections--whether in business, education, philanthropy, or creativity. Cisco hardware, software, and service offerings are used to create the Internet solutions that make networks possible--providing easy access to information anywhere, at any time. Cisco was founded in 1984 by a small group of computer scientists from Stanford University. Since the company's inception, Cisco engineers have been leaders in the development of Internet Protocol (IP)-based networking technologies. Today, with more than 71,000 employees worldwide, this tradition of innovation continues with industry-leading products and solutions in the company's core development areas of routing and switching, as well as in advanced technologies such as home networking, IP telephony, optical networking, security, storage area networking, and wireless technology. In addition to its products, Cisco provides a broad range of service offerings, including technical support and advanced services. Cisco sells its products and services, both directly through its own sales force as well as through its channel partners, to large enterprises, commercial businesses, service providers, and consumers.
