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 technically lead end-user features used by millions of people worldwide.
- Own the breakdown of product requirements into clear technical designs and executable tasks, delivering high-quality, maintainable solutions within an existing framework.
- Act as a technical point of reference for the team — reviewing designs and code, guiding implementation decisions, and raising the bar for engineering quality.
- Listen to the customer and elevate their experience. CSAT, NPS, feedback, and metrics are their voice — investigate issues, identify root causes, and drive meaningful improvements.
- Play to win — partner closely with engineers, product managers, and designers to deliver experiences that delight customers, balancing speed, quality, and long-term sustainability.
- Optimise — enable the team to focus on complex problems by using AI tools effectively and responsibly across the development lifecycle.
- Mentor and support other engineers, fostering a culture of learning, ownership, and continuous improvement.
- 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: 5+ years of professional software development experience or equivalent, with a strong track record of delivering production-quality software at scale.
- Technical Depth: Strong architecture and programming expertise, with the ability to make sound technical decisions and quickly learn new technologies.
- Problem Solving: Proven ability to apply and lead a structured, scientific, and creative approach to solving complex engineering problems.
- Leadership & Collaboration: Experience working in cross-functional teams, influencing technical direction, and communicating clearly with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Quality Focus: Deep commitment to software quality, including test strategy definition, code reviews, and continuous improvement practices.
Preferred Qualifications
- End-to-end development experience across the stack, in some or all of the following areas:
- 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 leading or significantly contributing to system design, architecture discussions, and technical decision-making.
- Strong experience with unit, integration, and end-to-end testing, including contract testing and test automation in CI pipelines.
- Practical experience or strong interest in AI-assisted development, including the use of LLM-based tools for scaffolding, refactoring, test generation, debugging, and improving developer productivity — with clear ownership of validated, production-ready code.
- Familiarity with Git, DevOps practices, continuous integration, and continuous delivery.
- Experience optimising applications across Windows, macOS, Linux, and Web platforms and ecosystems.
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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 subject.
- 5+ years of professional software development experience or equivalent, delivering production-quality software at scale.
- Strong architecture and programming expertise with ability to make sound technical decisions and learn new technologies quickly.
- Proven ability to apply structured, scientific, and creative approaches to solving complex engineering problems.
- Experience working in cross-functional teams, influencing technical direction, and clear communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Deep commitment to software quality, including defining test strategy, performing code reviews, and continuous improvement practices.
- End-to-end development experience across stack (languages, UI frameworks, back-end, APIs) and cross-platform optimization (Windows, macOS, Linux, Web).
- Experience with unit, integration, end-to-end, contract testing and test automation in CI pipelines.
- Familiarity with Git, DevOps practices, continuous integration and continuous delivery.
- Practical experience or strong interest in AI-assisted development and LLM-based tools to improve developer productivity.
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 — Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, mental health support via an EAP, and access to on-site or virtual health centers indicate robust healthcare offerings. Wellness programs, fitness resources, and specialized services further reinforce coverage depth.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Generous PTO, a global minimum for paid parental leave, and unique programs like company-wide recharge days and paid volunteer time expand time-away options. Additional offerings such as Critical Time Off and adoption assistance add flexibility for life events.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Restricted stock units and a discounted employee stock purchase plan are meaningful elements of total compensation. The prominence of equity can materially augment overall pay packages alongside salary and bonuses.
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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.
