Description
The Cisco Product Internship Program offers a 12-week summer experience designed to welcome early-career talent into this mission. You will solve real problems from day one by designing, building, and shipping the APIs and applications that power our platforms. You will write clean, maintainable back-end code, designing RESTful services and distributed architectures alongside your team, with opportunities to contribute to front-end systems as projects demand.
Minimum Qualifications
- Currently enrolled in an undergraduate degree program (Associate's or Bachelor's) with 2 years of work experience; or a Master's degree program with 0 years of work experience.
- Qualifying education and work experience should be in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or a related field.
- Expected to continue enrollment in degree program following completion of the internship.
- Proficiency in programming languages such as Python, Java, or Go.
- Experience building or supporting software applications or services, including APIs.
- Familiarity with core software engineering workflows, tools, and development environments such as Git and Linux.
Preferred Qualifications
- Proficiency in two or more of: JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML, CSS, or React, with UI/UX principles awareness.
- Experience applying Object-Oriented Programming principles, with exposure to C/C++ or JavaScript.
- Hands-on experience with RESTful services, distributed systems, or microservices.
- Exposure to a cloud platform (AWS, Azure, GCP) and/or deployment or automation tooling (Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Docker, Kubernetes).
- Exposure to networking fundamentals (L2/L3, TCP/IP), cloud security, or DevOps/DevSecOps practices.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
- 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution.
- Paid parental leave.
- Short and long-term disability coverage.
- Basic life insurance.
- Paid time away (10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees).
- Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer.