# Software Engineer

**Company**: Cisco
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

You will help build a large hybrid platform that Cisco's biggest customers run inside their own environment, bringing Cisco services close to their devices and data.

Most of your work is on the on-premises, edge side of this platform and its Kubernetes foundation , the layer that installs the platform, connects it to the cloud, keeps it in sync, and keeps it secure, even in air-gapped environments with no external network access.

Because the platform spans both sides, you may also work on the cloud services it connects to, so end-to-end problems can be solved wherever they live.

You will write secure, well-tested software and follow industry-leading engineering standards, guided by Cisco's 'Design Thinking Principles' and a focus on simplification.

**Responsibilities**

- Design and build the microservices and Linux components that install, configure, and run the platform on Kubernetes.

- Develop production services in Go and Python that manage the platform's lifecycle and connect it to the cloud , and, when the work calls for it, contribute to the cloud services on the other side of that connection.

- Automate the platform's build, install, and upgrade with Ansible across standard, hardened, and air-gapped Linux and Kubernetes environments.

- Improve how the on-premises platform and the cloud communicate , secure connectivity, message routing, and reliable data and file transfer.

- Partner with design and product management to deliver customer-centric solutions.

- Create technical design documentation and contribute to end-user documentation.

- Debug and resolve issues in development and production to support customers.

- Drive product innovation and improve how the team builds software.

**Minimum Qualifications**

- Bachelor's degree + 8 years of related experience, or Master's degree + 6 years of related experience

- Deep, hands-on experience designing, building, and operating microservices in production.

- Commercial experience developing production systems in Go.

- Working proficiency in Python for platform, tooling, or service code.

- Strong experience with Linux/Unix and expert-level Kubernetes, including designing resilient, highly available architectures.

- Practical experience with Ansible and at least one other infrastructure-as-code technology (Terraform, Puppet, Chef, or Helm) in a Git-based workflow.

- Solid understanding of how distributed systems communicate securely and reliably - connecting on-premises software to cloud services and moving data between them.

- Ability to scope work accurately and provide reliable estimates.

- Ability to translate business needs into technical direction and recommend industry standards.

- Expertise in interpreting business issues and recommending industry standards.

**Preferred Qualifications**

- Any exposure to edge or on-premises deployments is a bonus , including air-gapped or restricted-network setups , but it's something you can also learn on the team.

- Experience leading small-to-medium features from technical build through completion.

- Demonstrated ability to mentor peers and facilitate knowledge sharing (e.g., brownbags, design sessions).

- Experience leading postmortems, root cause analysis, and managing on-call coverage.

- Strong communication skills to negotiate delivery trade-offs with cross-functional partners.

- Experience influencing architectural decisions with a focus on security, scalability, and reliability.

- Fluency with agentic AI development tools , comfortable using them day to day and knowing where they add the most value.

- Familiarity with FIPS-mode cryptography, hardened Linux baselines, or other compliance-driven engineering.

- Working knowledge of Java is a plus for maintaining existing services in the platform.

## Skills

### Required
- Go
- Python
- Kubernetes
- Linux
- Ansible
- Terraform
- Puppet
- Chef
- Helm
- Git

### Nice to have
- Java
- FIPS-mode cryptography
- hardened Linux baselines
- agentic AI development tools

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