Contribute to load testing, profiling, and benchmarking, and turn the results into targeted optimizations.
Add observability instrumentation so the components you build are measurable in production.
Write clean, scalable code and comprehensive tests, primarily in Python, with flexibility to use other backend languages such as Go.
Lead features from technical design through implementation, deployment, and production support.
Debug production issues across data stores, queues, and services, and participate in code reviews, on-call, postmortems, and root-cause analysis.
Drive improvements in engineering practices, automated testing, security, and reliability.
Minimum Qualifications
Bachelor's degree with 4+ years of related experience, or Master's degree with 2+ years, or PhD with 0 years of relevant software engineering experience.
Strong experience in backend engineering and building production-grade services.
Hands-on experience with large-scale distributed systems, with a focus on scalability, reliability, and performance.
Working experience with at least one database relational or analytical including schema design, query tuning, and safe migrations.
Experience with streaming or queueing systems (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ, Pulsar, Kinesis).
Strong proficiency in Python and experience with another backend programming language such as Go, Java, C++, or similar.
Strong fundamentals in system design, distributed systems, APIs, data structures, algorithms, and concurrency.
Experience with modern software engineering practices including CI/CD, automated testing, code reviews, Agile development, and production troubleshooting.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience with a columnar, analytical, or time-series store (e.g., ClickHouse, Druid, BigQuery, Snowflake).
Experience tuning queue consumers or async task workers for throughput — concurrency, batching, and backpressure.
Exposure to performance work: profiling, benchmarking, or load testing real systems and acting on the measurements.
Experience with cloud-native technologies, containerized environments (Kubernetes), and public cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or similar).
Experience with observability instrumentation and tooling (OpenTelemetry, metrics, tracing, logs).
Familiarity with multi-tenant systems, quotas, or rate limiting.
Experience with secure coding practices and privacy-by-design.
Strong communication skills and a collaborative approach to design and code review.
Why Cisco?
At Cisco, we’re revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era – and beyond. We’ve been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint.
Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you’ll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere.
We are Cisco, and our power starts with you.
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