Senior Software Engineer

The application window has been extended and is expected to close 06/09/25

Job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received.

You will be working in a small, agile product development team to innovate and build the cloud-based network management controller, Meraki Dashboard, for Cisco's Switching business. Your role will involve design, development, and testing, with an emphasis on quality and usability to ensure that the product is intuitive. When technology is intuitive, our customers can focus on what matters. Please note, this is not a remote position.

Meet the Team

Cisco is the pioneer and leader in the Networking Industry, having a significant impact on global connectivity and infrastructure. Our teams build and maintain our web applications, which manage millions of network devices from our cloud. Our customers use the controller to monitor and configure critical IT infrastructure that serves tens of millions of people every day.

As a Backend Engineer on this team, you will collaborate with UX designers, product managers, quality engineers, and embedded software engineers who develop the switches to architect, design, and build a large-scale system running switching features. You will enable connections between over a million network nodes and our customers, relying on our products to serve tens of millions of people. With our extensive footprint, quality is our highest priority. Our team is responsible for delivering a simple yet powerful, scalable, and groundbreaking service to customers.

Your Impact

• Be part of a team of engineers involved in the development and testing of software for the network controller.
• Participate in design discussions and develop high-scale monitoring and provisioning systems for both customer and Cisco use.
• Work with architects and product owners/customers to help define feature functionality.
• Operate in an Agile methodology with an eye toward robust and disciplined software development.
• Contribute to functional specifications. Write portions of product specifications and help seek clarity where it doesn't exist.
• Design and develop large portions of software independently and rapidly.
• A strong ability and desire to learn new tools as required is essential.
• This team will use the latest and most appropriate technologies for the task at hand.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelors+ 7+ years, OR Masters 4+ years of experience writing professional production code and tests for large-scale systems.
• 6+ years of experience in Backend & Full Stack technologies (Java, Spring, Hibernate, ReactJS, NodeJS, Javascript, Python, Go, Ruby on Rails).
• Experience in building high-scale web UI applications.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience or interest in Networking..
• Outstanding communication skills.
• Ability to implement efficient database design and query performance in a relational database (Postgres, SQL).
• Follows development best practices like TDD and code reviews and owns automated tests to ensure quality.
• Strong problem-solving and software development/troubleshooting skills.
• Experience with container solutions (Kubernetes).
• Strategic and product-oriented approach with a desire to understand users.

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