Senior Software Engineer

Your Impact

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will architect and deliver core components of a highly scalable platform for Cisco Hypershield. You will focus on extending platform availability across multiple hypervisors, directly removing barriers to customer adoption and increasing market reach. Working with senior technical leadership, you will translate architectural goals into robust, high-performance code, ensuring the platform meets rigorous scalability and security standards while coordinating delivery across engineering and infrastructure teams.

Responsibilities

• Partner with application teams and infrastructure providers to understand workload requirements and hypervisor constraints. Use technical feedback, performance metrics, and system signals to validate architectural decisions and ensure desired platform outcomes.
• Contribute to the technical roadmap and own the implementation of a defined feature set or workstream for the Hypershield platform. Translate high-level priorities into technical requirements, success metrics (SLIs/SLOs), and execution plans.
• Collaborate with Engineering, Security, and Data teams to design and build dynamic scalability and a hardened security posture. Clarify technical tradeoffs, manage cross-functional dependencies, track risks, and proactively resolve blockers within the development lifecycle.
• Support platform readiness and operational excellence by assisting with technical documentation and resolving complex customer escalations. Monitor platform health, stability, and adoption post-deployment, using telemetry and incident data to recommend architectural improvements.
• Use AI tools responsibly to accelerate software development, code analysis, and prototyping. Share engineering best practices and design patterns that strengthen team collaboration and improve overall platform quality.

Minimum Qualifications

• 9+ years' experience building software systems in one or more programming languages such as Go, Python.
• Technical leadership experience in a software engineering environment.
• Agile experience.
• Bachelor's degree with 11+ years of related experience, Master's with 9+ years, PhD with 4+ years, or equivalent combination of education and experience. In lieu of a degree, a minimum of 10 years of relevant professional experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Proficiency in Computer Science foundational areas, including algorithms, systems, databases, performance engineering and security architecture.
• Experience with large-scale event processing architectures.
• Experience in systems programming and performance engineering.
• Experience working with security architecture and distributed systems.
• Kubernetes experience using Kubernetes Cluster API, Gateway APIs Operators.
• Experience deploying solutions for cloud architectures for AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• A professional who embraces agile methodologies that involve rapid prototyping by feedback gathered from customers, peers and technical solution architects, customer enablement engineers and support engineers.
• A technically skilled leader who enjoys architecting, designing, analyzing, and brainstorming solutions that improve the product and produce customer-facing capabilities.