Software Engineering Technical Leader - Backend (12+ Years)

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Bangalore, Bengaluru Urban, Karnataka, IND
In-Office
Expert/Leader
Cloud • Information Technology • Internet of Things • Professional Services • Software
The Role
Lead backend engineering across the full stack to design, build, and operate highly scalable distributed systems. Ensure reliability, performance, telemetry, and alerts. Own projects end-to-end, drive architecture and system design decisions, mentor engineers, resolve defects and network issues, and collaborate with product and cross-functional teams to deliver Meraki features to Cisco Catalyst.
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Meet the Team

At Cisco Meraki, our intuitive platform enables organizations of all sizes to deliver customer and employee experiences at scale. To provide outstanding technologies to our customers, we've composed an outstanding company culture for our employees. One that is collaborative, flexible, and inclusive and provides employees with the autonomy to develop technology that's intuitive, secure, and accessible for everyone.

Our customers use the Meraki web dashboard and programmable APIs to supervise, configure, and automate critical IT infrastructure that serves tens of millions of people every single day!. The Mars team is responsible for bringing Meraki Dashboard features to the Cisco Catalyst family.

Your Impact
  • Work across the full stack, building highly scalable distributed solutions that enable delightful user experiences and measurable business growth
  • Ensure reliability, performance and operational excellence of these systems by adding tests, telemetry and alerting systems
  • Take complete ownership from conception to production release by demonstrating your ability to influence, facilitate, and work across different teams.
  • Partner with EM/PM and other collaborators so define teams direction based on engineering and business priorities
  • Solve software defects, networking issues, and customer-reported problems while improving performance, scalability, and reliability.
Minimum Qualifications
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field and 12+ years of related experience, or Master’s degree with 8+ years, or PhD with 5+ years of related experience.
  • 3+ years of experience of professional coding web backend technologies, such as Ruby on Rails or similar as well as Go/Ruby/Python and rolling services out safely to customers using feature flags, A/B tests etc
  • Demonstrated experience making architectural and system designc hoices. Ability to communicate the trade offs and mentor other team members
  • Practical experience with Emulation and Simulation of Networking devices
  • Project Leadership through defining well-scoped stepping stones for a project(s) based on loosely defined business problems and can identify metrics to track project progress.
  • Ability to thrive in a fast paced agile engineering team and are excited to solve open-ended problems across the stack by rolling your sleeves up and working in all layers of the stack!
Preferred Qualifications
  • Experience with networking devices.
  • Experience with Cisco CML.
  • Experience systems software design, or large-scale distributed networking solutions.
  • Experience working across cross-functional or geographically distributed engineering teams. teams.
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, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field with 12+ years experience (or Master's with 8+ years, PhD with 5+ years).
  • 3+ years professional experience coding web backend technologies (e.g., Ruby on Rails) and experience with Go, Ruby, or Python; experience rolling services out safely using feature flags and A/B tests.
  • Demonstrated experience making architectural and system design choices and communicating trade-offs; ability to mentor team members.
  • Practical experience with emulation and simulation of networking devices.
  • Project leadership: define well-scoped milestones from loosely defined business problems and identify metrics to track progress.
  • Ability to thrive in a fast-paced agile engineering team and solve open-ended problems across the stack.
  • Experience with networking devices.
  • Experience with Cisco CML.
  • Experience with systems software design or large-scale distributed networking solutions.
  • Experience working across cross-functional or geographically distributed engineering teams.

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.

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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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The Company
HQ: San Jose, CA
77,500 Employees
Year Founded: 1984

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.

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