Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Cisco is revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era. The Staff Software Engineer will own features across the software development lifecycle, design and maintain distributed systems, and ensure system resilience and performance while mentoring junior engineers.
Responsibilities
- Own features end-to-end across the complete software development lifecycle including AI, spanning requirements gathering, technical design, implementation, testing, automation, deployment, and ongoing operational ownership in production
- Translate customer and business needs into clear technical solutions, making thoughtful trade-offs that balance speed, quality, and reliability
- Design, build, and maintain highly scalable, distributed systems that handle large volumes of data
- Identify and resolve pre-production bottlenecks and production issues, improving system resilience and performance
- Participate in design and code reviews, contributing to shared engineering standards and long-term system health
- Partner closely with product managers, SREs, and cross-functional teams to deliver meaningful customer outcomes
- Participate in a rotating on-call schedule, diagnosing and resolving production issues to ensure reliability and customer trust
- Mentor junior engineers and contribute to a culture of learning, ownership, and continuous improvement
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
- 8+ years of professional experience in software engineering and proficiency in at least one programming language, such as Go, Python, or Java
- 5+ years of experience in the design and implementation of distributed systems, including databases, distributed file systems, concurrency control, consistency models with API communication paradigms, including REST
- 2+ years of experience with CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes, container ecosystems, and microservices-based architectures
- 3+ years of experience working with public cloud providers, such as AWS, GCP, or Azure
- 5+ years of experience with debugging, troubleshooting, and the use of observability and diagnostic tools
- Experience developing or deploying applications using LLMs, RAG pipelines, MCP, and multi-agent frameworks
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
- Paid time away as described below, subject to Cisco’s policies
- 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
- Employees may be eligible to receive grants of Cisco restricted stock units, which vest following continued employment with Cisco for defined periods of time
- 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
- Employees in Illinois, whether exempt or non-exempt, will participate in a unique time off program to meet local requirements
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