Meet the team
Cisco's Routing SD-WAN Group develops intelligent, secure, and scalable networking solutions that help enterprises connect and protect their networks from edge to cloud. The SDWAN Manager engineering team builds the platform's management plane using scalable distributed systems, delivering services, APIs, workflows, and user experiences that enable customers to efficiently configure, operate, monitor, and solve their networks, with AI-driven capabilities enhancing operational efficiency and customer experience.
Your Impact:
- Develop and enhance the platform layer of SD-WAN Manager, focusing on scalable backend services and distributed systems.
- Design and build foundational platform capabilities that support multiple product teams and applications.
- Demonstrate strong proficiency in software development, with proven DSA, Multithreading, and OOP fundamentals, along with networking and security experience, to build scalable, secure, and high-performance solutions.
- Contribute to platform architecture, service frameworks, developer tooling, build systems, and runtime reliability.
- Collaborate across teams to improve platform scalability, maintainability, and operational excellence.
Minimum qualifications (Must have skills)
We are seeking a Senior Engineer with 8+ years of software development experience with a BE/BTech/MS/MCA in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
Have good expertise in Java and Data Structures & Algorithms (DSA), with a proven ability to design, build, and scale high-performance applications, services, and APIs.
Experience with observability and monitoring solutions, telemetry pipelines, performance optimization, and security protocols, including authentication, authorization, secure coding, and building reliable, resilient systems.
Experience developing scalable applications and services, with exposure to distributed systems, cloud-native technologies and Linux-based environments.
Passion for solving complex technical challenges, with hands-on experience in debugging, root-cause analysis, CI/CD, automated testing, and modern quality engineering practices.
Strong communication and collaboration skills, combined with experience using AI-powered development tools and agentic assistants to enhance productivity, innovation, and engineering effectiveness.
Preferred qualifications (Optional Skills)
Experience in Python, or Go is plus
Experience with SD-WAN, routing, controller-based networking, or network management systems.
Understanding of digital certificates (issuance, renewal, revocation, configuration, maintenance etc.)
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.
Disclaimer
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Skills Required
- 8+ years of software development experience
- BE/BTech/MS/MCA in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field
- Expertise in Java and data structures & algorithms (DSA)
- Proven ability to design, build, and scale high-performance applications, services, and APIs
- Experience with observability and monitoring solutions and telemetry pipelines
- Performance optimization and building reliable, resilient systems
- Experience with security protocols including authentication, authorization, and secure coding
- Experience with distributed systems, cloud-native technologies, and Linux-based environments
- Hands-on experience in debugging, root-cause analysis, CI/CD, automated testing, and modern quality engineering practices
- Strong communication and collaboration skills
- Experience using AI-powered development tools and agentic assistants
- Experience in Python or Go
- Experience with SD-WAN, routing, controller-based networking, or network management systems
- Understanding of digital certificates (issuance, renewal, revocation, configuration, maintenance)
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.
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