Software Engineer

Meet the Team

You will join a collaborative engineering organization that builds software guided by Cisco’s Design Thinking Principles, prioritizing simplification, user experience, secure coding, user privacy, and best‑practice development standards. The team is composed of professionals with various seniority and expertise areas (backend/frontend). Software engineers partner closely with design, product management, and cross‑functional stakeholders to deliver solutions that create real value for customers. Knowledge sharing, mentorship, innovation, and process improvement are core to how the team operates.

Your Impact

• Gain a good understanding of our product architecture, usage patterns, and real-world deployment scenarios to develop solutions that will bring value to our customers
• Collaborate with other team members to craft and build durable solutions, keeping scalability and performance considerations as a high priority
• Lead projects end-to-end and drive their completion with minimal direction
• Keep product quality top of mind with automated testing
• Become well-versed in Splunk's core technologies as they apply to application development
• Be part of the on-call shift team, up to 20% of time
  
  

Minimum Qualifications

• 3+ years of relevant industry experience
• Proficiency in Python programming
• Working experience with Linux environments and cloud deployments (e.g. AWS), emphasizing standard scalability and security processes
• Experience in collaboration with design and engineering teams to plan, develop, and release high quality software
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in design and development of RESTful services (using OpenAPI spec)
• Experience with containers (Docker) and understanding of CI/CD delivery processes
• Knowledge of backend development frameworks (e.g. Django)
• Experience with non-relational databases (NoSQL)
• Experience in test-driven development (TDD)
• Working knowledge or willingness to learn web development (e.g. HTML5/CSS, JavaScript, React.js, Node.js)
  
  

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.