Software Engineer

Job description

The application window is expected to close on: 08/24/2026Job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received. Develops software consistent with Cisco ‘Design Thinking Principles’ with a focus on simplification and UX (User Experience) at its core, using secure coding practices, ensuring user privacy, and following software development guidelines. Partners with other teams including design and product management to create the right solution for the customers. Creates technical design documentation to be used by the team as well as contributing to user documentation to be used by end users. Debugs and addresses software issues during development and in production systems to support customers. Brings new ideas for product innovation and helps improve software development processes. What You’ll Do: • Advanced experienced professional using protocols and knowledge of internal or external business issues to improve products or services. • Works independently but receives minimal guidance and direction from leader then determines best approach to accomplish work. • Acts as a resource for colleagues with less experience. • Understands project and/or department needs and establishes relationships with appropriate multi-functional partners to gather input, collect information and complete work steps. • May lead projects from end-to-end through delegation, review, and getting results holistically. • May lead medium features from technical design through completion. • May contribute to a defined software engineering roadmap. • Identifies and recommends improvements to the software development lifecycle and best practices in agile engineering. • Leads delivery of high-quality design of features and deliverables. • Sees opportunities for multiple products to work together to bring value for customers. • Integrates product sense as it relates to design of the product (market awareness, production adoption, competition) and tracks related metrics. • Writes functional clean code and unit tests with no guidance. • Maintains and enhances solutions by fixing complicated errors, raising risks, and bringing up issues where necessary. • Identifies immediate and larger scope problems through thorough code reviews. • Tests and reviews code to optimize scale, velocity, and reliability of deliverables. • Contributes to threat modeling of a feature. • Monitors the production environment and works cross-functionally to identify problems and track production systems. • May serve as escalation point for on-call issues. • Leads postmortem and writes root cause analysis. • Expert on multiple functional components. • Shares knowledge across teams, both informally and formally (e.g., ad-hoc basis, internal presentations, blogs, newsletters). • Coordinates across teams to estimate times and complete projects according to specification and user requirements. • Tracks milestones, progress and provides ongoing updates and remediation plans to cross-functional partners. • Mentors peers or more junior team members. • Assists other engineers through code reviews, documentation, and technical guidance. Minimum Qualifications: • Bachelors + 7 years of related experience OR Masters + 4 years of related experience OR PhD + 1 year of related experience. •Hands-on experience with Cloud Platforms: AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud •Fluency using agentic tools to assist with code generation •Hands-on experience with deep agent harness or similar tools •Experience deploying custom-built agents to production environments Preferred Qualifications Varies based on the team and business needs | Preferred Qualifications are desired education, experience, and skills that are in addition to Minimum Qualifications. 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. Disclaimer To ensure that we hire the best talent in the right way, we follow a strict hiring process and recently, Cisco has been made aware of fraudulent recruiters claiming to be from the company. 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