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Software Engineer, Backend
Location
California + 1 moreAll locations: California | Oklahoma
Posted
2 days ago
Salary
$152.5K - $219.2K / year
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Software Engineer, Backend
Cisco
• Develop, scale, and maintain platforms and services which sustain several Cisco services and data platforms, including the flagship Meraki Dashboard product. • 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.
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, and Python (preferred).
- Experience with observability tooling such as OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, and 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.).
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
- 10 paid holidays per full calendar year
- 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees
- 1 paid day off for employee’s birthday
- paid year-end holiday shutdown
- 4 paid days off for personal wellness determined by Cisco
- 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
- up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward from one calendar year to the next
- Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer
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