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.
Our engineering teams know the right things to do and are empowered to do them. This is a friendly, energetic environment with a fast pace of delivery, working closely with co-located UX design and product management teams.
Your Impact
- Design, build, and lead end-user features used by millions of people worldwide.
- Break down product requirements into clear technical tasks and implement elegant, maintainable components within an existing framework.
- Listen to the customer and elevate their experience. CSAT, NPS, feedback, and metrics are their voice — act as a detective to troubleshoot and understand, and as an engineer to improve.
- Play to win — collaborate closely with engineers, product managers, and designers to deliver high-quality experiences that delight our customers. Share your opinions, iterate, and move fast.
- Optimise — spend more time on the most challenging problems by using AI tools effectively and responsibly.
- Bring your fun, curiosity, and personality to the team.
Minimum Qualifications
- Education: Bachelor’s degree (or higher) in an analytical subject such as Computer Science, Electronic Engineering, or Software Engineering.
- Experience: 2+ years of professional software development experience or equivalent, with a strong passion for technology and building high-quality software.
- Coding Aptitude: Solid architecture and programming experience, with the ability and desire to learn new technologies quickly.
- Problem Solving: Ability to apply (and lead) a scientific and creative approach to solving complex problems.
- Adaptable & Collaborative: Thrives in diverse team environments and communicates clearly and precisely.
- Quality Focus: Strong attention to detail, experience defining test strategies, and a commitment to continuous learning and quality outcomes.
Preferred Qualifications
- End-to-end development experience across the stack, in some or all of the following:
- Languages: Modern C++, Swift, TypeScript/JavaScript, Java, Python
- UI Frameworks: Qt, Cocoa, React, Angular, or similar
- Back-end: Java (Spring), RESTful APIs, WebSockets, and API design
- Experience with unit, integration, and end-to-end testing, including contract testing and test automation within CI pipelines.
- Nice to have: An interest in AI-assisted development, including hands-on use or experimentation with LLM-based tools for tasks such as scaffolding, refactoring, test generation, debugging, or developer productivity improvements — with strong validation and ownership of shipped code.
- Familiarity with Git, DevOps practices, continuous integration, and continuous delivery.
- Experience optimising applications across Windows, macOS, Linux, and Web platforms.
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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 in Computer Science, Electronic Engineering, Software Engineering, or related analytical field
- 2+ years professional software development experience or equivalent
- Solid architecture and programming experience with ability to learn new technologies quickly
- Ability to apply and lead scientific and creative approaches to solve complex problems
- Thrives in diverse team environments and communicates clearly
- Strong attention to detail, experience defining test strategies, commitment to continuous learning and quality outcomes
- End-to-end development experience across stack (C++, Swift, TypeScript/JavaScript, Java, Python)
- Experience with UI frameworks (Qt, Cocoa, React, Angular)
- Back-end experience (Java Spring), RESTful APIs, WebSockets, API design
- Experience with unit, integration, and end-to-end testing, contract testing, and test automation in CI pipelines
- Interest or hands-on experience with AI-assisted/LLM-based developer tools
- Familiarity with Git, DevOps practices, continuous integration and continuous delivery
- Experience optimizing applications across Windows, macOS, Linux, and Web platforms
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.
