Software Engineer

Cisco is a leading technology company revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations. The Software Engineer role involves leading end-to-end projects and medium-sized features while maintaining hands-on involvement in the development of critical data-storage infrastructure and services.

Responsibilities:

• Lead medium-sized features and end-to-end projects through scoping, design, delegation, implementation, review, rollout, and production validation; contribute evidence and technical judgment to the defined roadmap
• Lead the design of versioned APIs and service capabilities for graph, key-value, and related structured-storage services, covering authentication, routing, placement, policy, caching, and database lifecycle operations; identify opportunities for related services to create greater customer value
• Remain hands-on in Go and adjacent technologies, resolve complicated errors, identify larger-scope risks through code and design reviews, and contribute to feature threat modeling
• Coordinate estimates, specifications, milestones, dependencies, and remediation plans across product, SRE, platform, security, support, and engineering partners
• Use product adoption, reliability, scalability, security, performance, and cost signals to guide design tradeoffs and continuously improve customer outcomes
• Act as an escalation point for production issues, lead cross-functional monitoring and recovery improvements, and lead postmortems, root-cause analysis, and durable corrective actions
• Mentor peers and junior engineers through reviews, documentation, and technical guidance; identify and recommend improvements to software-development and operational practices

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree and 7+ years of related experience OR master's degree and 4+ years of related experience OR PhD and 1+ year of related experience
• Experience leading end-to-end software projects from design through production release and validation, including coordination across engineering teams or functions
• Experience developing production backend services and versioned APIs in Go, C++, or another systems programming language
• Experience designing and operating production database-backed services using at least one graph, relational, or NoSQL database, including schema evolution, transaction handling, backup or recovery, or performance tuning
• Experience designing production distributed systems involving consistency, replication, partitioning, routing, or failure recovery
• Experience delivering and operating containerized services through CI/CD on Kubernetes in a public-cloud or on-premises environment
• Experience serving as a production escalation point and leading root-cause analyses or post-incident reviews
• Experience mentoring engineers through code reviews, design reviews, or technical guidance
• Deep Neo4j Enterprise and Cypher experience, including graph modeling, clustering, topology, Bolt or Query API usage, database provisioning, page cache, and transaction metrics
• PostgreSQL, Amazon Aurora, or RDS experience involving connection security, IAM authentication, schema evolution, tuning, backup, restore, and regional recovery
• Experience with Helm, Kubernetes controllers or Operators, GitLab CI/CD, Terraform, Puppet, or similar delivery and configuration tooling
• Experience integrating services across public clouds and on-premises environments, including service mesh, network policy, workload identity, or Vault
• Knowledge of database internals, storage engines, query planning, indexes, transaction logs, concurrency control, or large-scale capacity and performance engineering