Develops software consistent with Cisco ‘Design 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 design and product management to create the right solution for the customers. Creates 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.
What You’ll Do:
- Experienced professional using best practices and knowledge of internal or external business issues to improve products or services.
- Works independently but receives guidance and direction from leader then determines best approach to accomplish work.
- Acts as a resource for colleagues with less experience.
- Develops relationship with peer stakeholders within and across teams and builds productive working relationships.
- May lead projects with limited complexity to execute the defined software engineering roadmap.
- May lead small-to-medium features from technical design through completion.
- Stays current on industry trends and serves as an expert on the software development lifecycle and agile engineering practices; coaches others, as needed.
- Contributes to delivery of high-quality design and deliverables.
- Advocates for new features within a product to address customer needs.
- Tracks metrics for product adoption and success.
- Writes functional clean code and unit tests with minimal guidance.
- Performs coding, debugging, testing, and troubleshooting throughout the development process under minimal supervision.
- Performs code reviews for others in project.
- Writes code enabling scale, reliability, and velocity in product releases.
- Contributes as an expert in secure coding principles and understands threat model of a feature.
- Troubleshoots complex issues within the production environment, may serve customers through on-call rotations to identify end user problems, may lead postmortem and write 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 and collaborates on project timelines and continuously reviews, updates, and communicates project specifications to team members and stakeholders.
- Develops remediation plans and alternatives to ensure timely delivery.
- Identifies and acts upon opportunities to assist others.
- Mentors peers and/or engineering interns.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelors + 5 years of related experience, or Masters + 3 years of related experience, or PhD + 0 years of related experience.
- Requires working knowledge and expanded conceptual knowledge in primary technical job family and broadens capabilities; has worked with and is proficient with current technologies.
Preferred Qualifications
- 5+ years of professional experience in software development with a strong focus on data engineering, system integration, and backend application development.
- Proficiency in Python for developing data pipelines, automation, REST APIs, and backend services.
- Hands-on experience in MuleSoft application development, including API design, implementation, integration, and deployment.
- Experience building AI-powered applications or integrating AI/ML capabilities into enterprise solutions.
- Experience working with relational and NoSQL databases such as PostgreSQL, Snowflake, Oracle, MongoDB, or equivalent database technologies.
- Hands-on experience with modern data and integration technologies, including Kafka, Airflow, GraphQL, Heroku, CI/CD pipelines, or similar platforms.
- Familiarity with AI-assisted software development tools such as GitHub Copilot, Cursor, or similar coding assistants to improve engineering productivity.
- Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is preferred.
- Experience developing Salesforce integrations or working with Salesforce platform technologies is a plus.
- Strong understanding of software engineering best practices, including object-oriented design, version control (Git), code reviews, automated testing, CI/CD, and Agile development methodologies.
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving, debugging, and troubleshooting skills.
- Strong collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively in cross-functional Agile teams.
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 5 years related experience, or Master's plus 3 years, or PhD with 0 years
- Working knowledge and expanded conceptual knowledge in primary technical job family; proficiency with current technologies
- 5+ years professional experience in software development focused on data engineering, system integration, and backend development
- Proficiency in Python for data pipelines, automation, REST APIs, and backend services
- Hands-on experience in MuleSoft application development including API design, integration, and deployment
- Experience building AI-powered applications or integrating AI/ML capabilities
- Experience with relational and NoSQL databases such as PostgreSQL, Snowflake, Oracle, or MongoDB
- Hands-on experience with Kafka, Airflow, GraphQL, Heroku, and CI/CD pipelines
- Familiarity with AI-assisted coding tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Cursor)
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform)
- Experience developing Salesforce integrations or working with Salesforce technologies
- Strong understanding of software engineering best practices: OOD, version control (Git), code reviews, automated testing, CI/CD, Agile
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving, debugging, troubleshooting, and communication skills
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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