Senior Software Engineer, Backend

About the Role

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.

Your Impact

• 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'.

Pay

The starting salary range for this position is $165,000.00 to $241,400.00 for U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including incentive compensation, equity, or benefits. Individual pay is determined by hiring location, market conditions, job-related skillset, experience, qualifications, education, certifications, and/or training.

For specific locations: New York City Metro Area: $165,000.00 - $277,600.00; Non-Metro New York State & Washington State: $146,700.00 - $247,000.00.

Benefits

• Medical, dental and vision insurance
• 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution
• Paid parental leave
• Short and long-term disability coverage
• Basic life insurance
• Grants of Cisco restricted stock units (vesting following continued employment for defined periods)
• 10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees
• 1 paid day off for employee's birthday
• Paid year-end holiday shutdown
• 4 paid days off for personal wellness determined by Cisco
• Non-exempt employees: 16 days of paid vacation per full calendar year, accrued at rate of 4.92 hours per pay period
• Exempt employees: Flexible vacation time off program with no defined limit (subject to availability and business limitations)
• 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter, with up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward
• Additional paid time away may be requested for critical or emergency issues for family members
• Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer
• Annual bonuses for non-sales roles