Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Cisco is a leading technology company aiming to simplify technology for its customers. As a Senior Software Engineer in the Time Series Data team, you will develop and maintain platforms and services that support several Cisco services, focusing on scalable and reliable backend solutions.
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
Skills
- 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'
Benefits
- Medical, dental and vision insurance
- A 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution
- Paid parental leave
- Short and long-term disability coverage
- Basic life insurance
- Grants of Cisco restricted stock units, which vest following continued employment with Cisco for defined periods of time
- 10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees
- 1 paid day off for employee’s birthday, paid year-end holiday shutdown, and 4 paid days off for personal wellness determined by Cisco
- Non-exempt employees receive 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year, accrued at rate of 4.92 hours per pay period for full-time employees
- Exempt employees participate in Cisco’s flexible vacation time off program, which has no defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use (subject to availability and some business limitations)
- 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter, and up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward from one calendar year to the next
- Additional paid time away may be requested to deal with critical or emergency issues for family members
- Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer
- Employees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, which is split between quota and non-quota components, subject to the applicable Cisco plan
- For non-sales roles, employees are also eligible to earn annual bonuses subject to Cisco’s policies
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