Please note that our team is based in Galway and we operate a hybrid working model. This role will require you to be in the office 3 days a week, between Tuesday-Thursday.
Meet the Team
Cisco's Webex Engineering Group is redefining the future of collaboration. We're building a world where people connect effortlessly to enjoy modern, uncompromised collaboration across every room, desk, pocket, and application.
Our technology powers industry-leading products like Webex Meetings, Webex Calling, and Webex Contact Center. As a member of our team, your work will ensure every user gets a truly immersive experience regardless of device or location, empowering the hybrid working patterns of the future.
Focusing on AI features for the Webex Calling solution, our team works to integrate the latest artificial intelligence technologies to enable the next generation of collaboration, efficiency and innovation.
Your Impact
- Innovate: Design, build, and lead the technical direction of end-user features used by millions of people worldwide. Our team is focused on building AI features for the bleeding edge of collaboration, giving you the platform to shape the architecture of our next-generation systems.
- Lead by Example: Serve as a technical role model and mentor across the engineering team, setting a high bar for code quality, system testing, reliability, and operational excellence.
- Embrace AI-First Engineering: Champion the adoption of transformative AI technologies, establishing best practices that leverage these tools to accelerate the team's overall productivity and speed up the delivery of key customer features.
- DevOps & Microservices: Drive the scaling and operational strategy of our highly available microservice architecture, ensuring long-term system reliability and efficient deployment pipelines.
- Adaptable & Problem-Solver: Tackle complex, systemic, and varied technical challenges daily-demonstrating data-driven decision-making, clear handling of architectural trade-offs, and an agility to adapt to shifting technical landscapes.
- Ownership & Quality: Take full responsibility for leading critical, multi-faceted initiatives, driving everything from initial system design and automated testing strategies to the resolution of complex, high-priority production issues.
- Support & Growth: Actively mentor and grow the capabilities of mid-level and junior engineers within a supportive team environment, while collaborating with Principal-level peers to advance your own technical leadership trajectory.
Minimum Qualifications
- Core Software Development Experience: 5+ years of professional experience in software development using Java.
- System Architecture & Design Leadership: Documented experience leading the high-level system design and architecture of distributed, multi-service ecosystems, including defining cross-team API standards.
- DevOps & CI/CD Strategy: Proven experience designing, configuring, or optimizing end-to-end CI/CD pipelines, container orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes), or infrastructure-as-code strategies for highly available systems.
Preferred Qualifications
- Academic Qualification: Bachelor's degree or higher in an analytical subject (e.g. Computer Science, Electronic/Software Engineering).
- Java & Spring Architecture: Deep technical expertise in advanced Java concepts, Spring Boot ecosystem optimizations, and microservices patterns (e.g., event sourcing, CQRS, WebSockets).
- Advanced Testing & Quality Assurance: Hands-on experience establishing automated testing strategies across teams, including contract testing, performance/load testing, and chaos engineering.
- Engineering Mentorship: Demonstrated experience peer-reviewing complex code architectures, onboarding new team members, and formally or informally mentoring mid-level and junior engineers.
- AI-First Engineering Leadership: Practical experience establishing team-wide best practices for using LLM-based engineering tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot) for scaffolding, safe refactoring, and test generation.
- Strategic Trade-offs: Ability to clearly communicate and evaluate complex technical trade-offs, manage technical debt, and align engineering decisions with broader business product goals.
We provide training and mentoring for all new team members to fill in any gaps.
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
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in an analytical subject such as Computer Science or Electronic/Software Engineering
- 5+ years of professional software development experience using Java
- Experience leading high-level system design and architecture for distributed, multi-service ecosystems
- Experience defining cross-team API standards
- Experience designing, configuring, or optimizing end-to-end CI/CD pipelines, container orchestration such as Kubernetes, or infrastructure-as-code strategies
- Advanced Java expertise and Spring Boot ecosystem experience
- Experience with microservices patterns such as event sourcing, CQRS, or WebSockets
- Experience establishing automated testing strategies, including contract, performance/load, or chaos testing
- Experience peer-reviewing complex architectures and mentoring engineers
- Experience establishing team-wide practices for LLM-based engineering tools such as GitHub Copilot
- Ability to evaluate technical trade-offs, manage technical debt, and align engineering decisions with product goals
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 broad, with medical options including PPOs, high-deductible plans, and regional HMOs. Feedback suggests robust wellness and mental-health resources, with some locations offering on-site support and second medical opinions.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time off is highlighted through paid holidays, paid time off, and additional recharge days such as “Days for Me,” with generous volunteer time also mentioned. Feedback suggests these programs help support rest, volunteering, and critical life events.
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Parental & Family Support — Parental and family support appears extensive, including paid child-bonding leave, family medical leave, and caregiving resources. Observations also point to family-planning assistance and adoption or surrogacy support in some regions.
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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.
