Software Engineer, Structured Storage

Cisco is a leading technology company that focuses on revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations. The Software Engineer, Structured Storage will be responsible for designing and implementing data-storage infrastructure and services, coordinating delivery across teams, and contributing to the team's defined roadmap.

Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, test, and operate well-scoped projects and small-to-medium features within the team's defined structured-storage roadmap
• Develop versioned APIs and service components for graph, key-value, and related structured-storage services, covering authentication, routing, placement, policy, caching, and database lifecycle operations; contribute actively to design and code reviews
• Own delivery from source to production by using CI/CD, secure container images, Kubernetes configuration, database migrations, rollout validation, and rollback plans
• Improve reliability, scalability, security, performance, and cost efficiency using metrics, traces, logs, profiles, load tests, and customer or product-success signals
• Troubleshoot complex production issues, periodically participate in the team's on-call rotation, and when appropriate lead postmortems, root-cause analysis, and corrective actions
• Coordinate project specifications and timelines, keep stakeholders informed, surface risks early, and develop practical remediation options when delivery changes
• Share knowledge through documentation, reviews, and technical discussions; mentor peers or interns and help strengthen engineering practices across the team

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree and 5+ years of related experience OR master's degree and 3+ years of related experience OR PhD
• 3 years experience developing production backend services and versioned APIs in Go, C++, or another systems programming language
• 3 years experience with at least one production graph, relational, or NoSQL database, including data modeling, queries, schema or data migrations, transactions, or performance tuning
• 3 years experience deploying containerized services through CI/CD to Kubernetes or a comparable orchestration platform
• 3 years experience diagnosing production issues with logs, metrics, or traces and participating in on-call or incident response
• Experience building or operating distributed services in production, including failure handling, scalability, or recovery
• Neo4j 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, migrations, tuning, backup, and restore
• Experience with Helm, Kubernetes controllers or Operators, GitLab CI/CD, Terraform, Puppet, or similar delivery and configuration tooling
• Experience operating services across one or more public clouds and on-premises environments, including service mesh, network policy, workload identity, or Vault integrations
• Knowledge of database internals, storage engines, query planning, indexes, transaction logs, concurrency control, or large-scale performance testing