Cisco
Software Engineer
RTP, North Carolina, US · Full-time
Sponsorship not specified$137k-$201kDetected 1 hour ago
C++Distributed SystemsBackend DevelopmentCode ReviewGitNoSQLPostgreSQLAWSAzureKubernetesTerraformHelmCI/CDSite Reliability EngineeringCybersecurityCiscoMentoring
About the role
- Mentor peers and junior engineers through reviews, documentation, and technical guidance; identify and recommend improvements to software-development and operational practices.
Requirements
- Experience serving as a production escalation point and leading root-cause analyses or post-incident reviews.
- 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.
Nice to have
- The application window is expected to close on: Job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received.
- The team's portfolio spans graph, key-value, and related structured-storage services running on premises and across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
- contribute evidence and technical judgment to the defined roadmap.
- Mentor peers and junior engineers through reviews, documentation, and technical guidance
- identify and recommend improvements to software-development and operational practices.
- 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 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.
Compensation
- 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.
- The applicable full salary ranges for this position, by specific state, are listed below:
Benefits
- Please see the Cisco careers site to discover more benefits and perks.
- Employees may be eligible to receive grants of Cisco restricted stock units, which vest following continued employment with Cisco for defined periods of time.
- Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location, market conditions, job-related skillset, experience, qualifications, education, certifications, and/or training.
Company info
- $146,700.00 - $247,000.00 * For quota-based sales roles on Cisco's sales plan, the ranges provided in this posting include base pay and sales target incentive compensation combined. ** Employees in Illinois, whether exempt or non-exempt, will participate in a unique time off program to meet local requirements.
- Cisconians power the future.
- We make impact as a team, innovating fast and fearlessly to create meaningful solutions on a large scale.
- The depth and breadth of our technology doesn't just benefit our customers - it also means limitless opportunities for us to experiment and learn.
- We understand the power each of our unique backgrounds bring when we work together.
- Because of that, we have a global network of thinkers, doers, experts, and curious creators who help one another do their life's best work.
This listing is sourced directly from Cisco's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.