Software Engineer, Backend

About the role

The Time Series Data (TSD) team builds and operates the time-series database and supporting software components that store and serve the telemetry behind Cisco Meraki's Dashboard. This role suits someone who wants to go deep on core data infrastructure in C++, take on real responsibility, and learn from the engineers around them.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Requirements

• 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.

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.
• Able to comment on the difference between 'prompt engineering', 'context engineering', and 'agentic engineering'.

Skills

• Experience with distributed systems.
• Experience with C++11 or newer standards.
• Experience with CI/CD and containerization.
• Experience with relational databases using SQL.
• Experience with automated testing frameworks and LLM-based coding assistants.
• Experience with observability tooling.
• Experience with feature flagging tools.
• Experience with database management.
• Ability to comment on the difference between 'prompt engineering', 'context engineering', and 'agentic engineering'.

Benefits

At Cisco, we offer competitive salaries, comprehensive health and welfare benefits, and a variety of additional perks and programs designed to support our employees and their families. Specific details about the benefits package can be found on the Cisco careers site.

Pay

$152,500.00 to $219,200.00

Schedule

Full-time