Senior Software Engineer, Backend
Meet the Team
The successful applicant may be performing work in FedRAMP High or IL-5 environments, and therefore, must be a U.S. Person (i.e. U.S. citizen, U.S. national, lawful permanent resident, asylee, or refugee). This position may also perform work that the U.S. government has specified can only be performed by a U.S. citizen on U.S. soil.
At Cisco Meraki, we know that technology can connect, empower, and drive us. Our mission is to simplify technology so our customers can focus on what's most meaningful to them: their students, patients, customers, and businesses. We're making networking easier, faster, and smarter with technology that simply works. In near real time, Cisco Meraki collects massive amounts of data from its devices all over the world. We write nearly 11 million data points each second globally every day. With this data, we help to power Dashboard and allow our customers insight into the state of their networks. Our devices are some of the most popular in the world: there are over 11 million devices online globally. This popularity comes with large scalability challenges: our backend handles more than 10 billion of requests to our devices 24/7/365.
Your Impact
As a member of the Time Series Data team, you will develop, scale, and maintain the platforms and services which sustain several Cisco services and data platforms, including the flagship Meraki Dashboard product. You will work with many different people within Engineering and throughout Cisco to help build the infrastructure and data pipelines to power their data-driven decisions.
In This Role You Can Expect To
- Design, build, ship, analyze, and maintain scalable, distributed, enterprise software solutions that support the services which record and consume telemetry data.
- Build and maintain backend components using C++ in a Linux environment.
- Focus on increasing reliability, performance, scalability, testability, maintainability, observability, and developer experience.
- Work with various groups within Cisco to understand their and our customers' data requirements and requests.
Minimum Qualifications
- Distributed Systems: Experience analyzing, scaling, troubleshooting, and debugging distributed systems.
- C++ Development: Experience developing software using C++11 or newer standards.
- CI/CD & Containerization: Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines (GitLab or GitHub) and deploying applications using containerization and Kubernetes.
- Database Management: Experience designing and querying relational databases using SQL (PostgreSQL or MySQL).
- Development Lifecycle: Experience utilizing automated testing frameworks and LLM-based coding assistants within the software development lifecycle.
Preferred Qualifications
- Programming experience in Rust, Scala, Python.
- Experience with observability tooling such as OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana.
- Experience with feature flagging tools such as Launch Darkly.
- Experience maintaining database software.
- Experience or willingness to working in an agile environment (Scrum, Kanban, etc.).
- Able to comment on the difference between 'prompt engineering', 'context engineering', and 'agentic engineering'.
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.