Meet the Team

Our team builds and maintains the core backend services that enable our platform. We design and optimize APIs, architect distributed systems, and collaborate closely with product, SRE, and frontend teams. As a key contributor, you’ll work independently on end-to-end solutions and help shape the technical direction of our backend ecosystem.

Your Impact

You will be responsible for:

• Designing, implementing, and optimizing large-scale backend services
• Leading development efforts and collaborating on architecture decisions
• Ensuring service reliability, scalability, and performance
• Writing high-quality, testable, and maintainable code
• Mentoring junior engineers and fostering best practices across the team
• Driving technical improvements and contributing to the team’s roadmap

Minimum Qualifications:

• B.Sc. in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, with 6+ years of related experience
• Proven experience building and deploying production-grade backend systems
• Proficiency in backend technologies such as Python, NodeJS, and cloud-native tools (AWS, Docker, Kubernetes)
• Deep understanding of distributed systems, microservice design, and API architecture

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience leading design discussions and delivering end-to-end features
• Hands-on experience with performance tuning and large-scale systems
• Familiarity with observability and monitoring practices
• Experience collaborating with product and business stakeholders to define technical priorities and translate product needs into engineering tasks
• Strong communication and mentorship skills
• Team player with high sense of ownership and accountability

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.