Software Engineer Full Stack / Backend II (Full-Time) - United States
Meet the Team
Join Cisco's innovative engineering community, where you'll have the opportunity to collaborate with teams across Cisco IT, CPX (Customer & Partner Experience), Supply Chain, Cisco Networking (CPO) and Workplace Technology. You'll work alongside hardworking engineers, designers, and product managers who bring ideas to life and transform how the world connects, communicates, and collaborates. Our teams value creativity, continuous learning, and a culture of inclusion as we build the next generation of industry-leading products and platforms!
Your Impact
As a Software Engineer at Cisco, you will design and build software solutions that power Cisco's products and platforms. You will work end-to-end on everything from APIs and backend services to user interfaces and distributed systems. You'll solve real-world problems, ship impactful features, and help shape the future of connectivity and technology.
Minimum Qualifications
Meet one of the following (completed within the past 3 years or expected to be completed within the next 12 months):
- A Master's degree with 0 years of work experience; or
- A Bachelor's degree with 2 years of work experience.
- Qualifying education and work experience should be in Computer Engineering, Technology, Software Development or a related field.
- Proficiency in programming languages such as Python, Java, or Go
- Experience writing, debugging, and maintaining code
- Experience building or supporting software applications or services, including APIs and familiarity with core software engineering workflows, tools, and development environments such as Git and Linux
Preferred Qualifications
- Expertise in frontend development using JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML, CSS, and React, with a strong focus on UI/UX principles.
- Proficiency in full-stack development, including experience with Python, Java, or JavaScript, and a solid understanding of RESTful APIs, Object-Oriented Programming, and version control via Git.
- Strong background in building and managing scalable backend distributed systems and microservices using languages such as C/C++, Go, Python, or Java.
- Extensive experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Ansible), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and robust CI/CD automation workflows.
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.