Software Engineer

Meet the Team

The Cisco Common Platform Services (CCPS) organization is transforming how Cisco delivers software-as-a-service by providing a modern, consistent, and secure platform used across the company. Within CCPS, the Cloud Software & Solutions (CSS) group designs and develops OpenStack and Kubernetes platform solutions that support quality, stability, simplification, scalability, performance, and portability. The team is a global engineering organization with deep expertise in hybrid cloud, IaaS, and PaaS, and it works closely across platform, infrastructure, and operations domains to improve how services are built and run. The environment is collaborative, technically rigorous, and focused on creating repeatable, portable delivery models that help teams deploy applications quickly and securely. What makes this team compelling is the opportunity to shape foundational platform capabilities that influence the experience of many internal engineering teams at scale.

Your Impact

• Design foundational Kubernetes platform capabilities to improve the reliability, scalability, and operability of the cloud-native ecosystem.
• Build and maintain automation for cluster lifecycle management, configuration, and upgrades to reduce manual effort and increase platform consistency. Enhance core components across networking, storage, security, and resource management to support production-grade multi-team usage.
• Partner with SRE, security, networking, and application teams to deliver resilient platform services and accelerate issue resolution.
• Participate in on-call response and post-incident reviews to strengthen platform stability and drive measurable operational improvements over time.
  
  

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree with 4+ years of experience, or Master's degree with 2+ years of experience, in software engineering, cloud engineering, or platform engineering.
• Professional experience developing in Go or Python in production environments.
• Hands-on experience operating and troubleshooting Kubernetes-based platforms or cloud-native infrastructure.
• Experience using Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform to provision or manage infrastructure.
• Experience working with at least one major public cloud platform: AWS, Azure, or GCP.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with observability tooling such as Prometheus, Grafana, or OpenTelemetry.
• Experience supporting large-scale or multi-tenant Kubernetes clusters.
• Familiarity with OpenStack in private cloud or hybrid cloud environments.
• Experience with CI/CD, GitOps, or developer platform enablement practices.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills in distributed engineering teams.
  
  

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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.

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