Meet the team:
Develops software consistent with Cisco ‘Build Thinking Principles’ with a focus on simplification and UX (User Experience) at its core, using secure coding practices, ensuring user privacy, and following software development best practices. Partners with other teams including build and product management to build the right solution for the customers. Builds technical design documentation to be used by the team as well as contributing to user documentation to be used by end users. Debugs and addresses software issues during development and in production systems to support customers. Brings new ideas for product innovation and helps improve software development processes.
Your Impact:
• Advanced experienced professional using best practices and knowledge of internal or external business issues to improve products or services.
• Works independently but receives minimal guidance and direction from leader then determines best approach to accomplish work.
• Acts as a resource for colleagues with less experience.
• Understands project and/or department needs and establishes relationships with appropriate cross-functional stakeholders to gather input, collect information and complete work steps.
• May lead projects from end-to-end through delegation, review, and driving results holistically.
• May lead medium features from technical build through completion.
• May contribute to a defined software engineering roadmap.
• Identifies and recommends improvements to the software development lifecycle and best practices in agile engineering.
• Leads delivery of high-quality build of features and deliverables.
• Identifies opportunities for multiple products to work together to create value for customers.
• Integrates product sense as it relates to build of the product (market awareness, production adoption, competition) and supervises related metrics.
• Writes functional clean code and unit tests with no mentorship.
• Maintains and enhances solutions by fixing complicated errors, raising risks, and escalating issues where necessary.
• Identifies immediate and larger scope problems through thorough code reviews.
• Tests and reviews code to optimize scale, velocity, and reliability of deliverables.
• Contributes to threat modeling of a feature.
• Monitors the production environment and works cross-functionally to identify problems and track production systems.
• May serve as escalation point for on-call issues.
• Leads postmortem and writes root cause analysis.
• Expert on multiple functional components.
• Shares knowledge across teams, both informally and formally (e.g., ad-hoc basis, internal presentations, blogs, newsletters).
• Coordinates across teams to estimate times and complete projects according to specification and user requirements.
• Tracks milestones, progress and provides ongoing updates and remediation plans to cross-functional partners.
• Mentors peers or more junior team members.
• Assists other engineers through code reviews, documentation, and technical guidance.
Minimum Qualifications:
• Bachelors + 7 years of related experience OR Masters + 4 years of related experience OR PhD + 1 year of related experience.
• Requires solid conceptual and practical knowledge in primary technical job family and knowledge of related technical job families; has worked with a range of technologies.
Preferred Qualifications
Varies based on the team and business needs | Preferred Qualifications are desired education, experience, and skills that are in addition to Minimum Qualifications.
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 plus 7 years related experience OR Master's plus 4 years OR PhD plus 1 year
- Solid conceptual and practical knowledge in primary technical job family and related technical families; has worked with a range of technologies
- Experience writing clean, functional code and unit tests independently
- Experience with secure coding practices and contributing to threat modeling
- Experience debugging and supporting production systems, including on-call escalation and postmortem/root cause analysis
- Preferred qualifications vary by team and business needs
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.
