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Software Engineer, Backend
Location
California + 1 moreAll locations: California | Oklahoma
Posted
20 hours ago
Salary
$152.5K - $219.2K / year
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Software Engineer, Backend
Cisco
• Develop, scale, and maintain the platforms and services sustaining several Cisco services and data platforms • Design, build, ship, analyze, and maintain scalable, distributed, enterprise software solutions • 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 data requirements and requests
Job Requirements
- 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 (preferred)
- Experience with observability tooling such as OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana (preferred)
- Experience with feature flagging tools such as Launch Darkly (preferred)
- Experience maintaining database software (preferred)
- Experience or willingness to work in an agile environment (Scrum, Kanban, etc.) (preferred)
Benefits
- Medical, dental and vision insurance
- 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution
- Paid parental leave
- Short and long-term disability coverage
- Basic life insurance
- 10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday
- 1 paid day off for employee’s birthday
- Paid year-end holiday shutdown
- 4 paid days off for personal wellness
- 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year for non-exempt employees
- Flexible vacation time off program for exempt employees
- 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter
- Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer
- Annual bonuses for non-sales roles
- Performance-based incentive pay for sales roles
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