Senior Software Engineer, Backend

Cisco is a leading technology company focused on simplifying technology for its customers. The Senior Software Engineer, Backend will develop, scale, and maintain platforms and services that support Cisco's data-driven decisions and products, specifically the Meraki Dashboard.

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:

• Experience analyzing, scaling, troubleshooting, and debugging distributed systems
• Experience developing software using C++11 or newer standards
• Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines (GitLab or GitHub) and deploying applications using containerization and Kubernetes
• Experience designing and querying relational databases using SQL (PostgreSQL or MySQL)
• Experience utilizing automated testing frameworks and LLM-based coding assistants within the software development lifecycle
• 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'