# Senior Software Engineer

**Company**: Cisco
**Location**: Milpitas, California
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $167,700.00 to $245,200.00
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

The Cisco Intersight team is at the forefront of Cisco’s AI Infrastructure strategy. Intersight provides cloud-native management and orchestration capabilities for distributed compute infrastructure, helping organizations provision, monitor, and optimize the systems that support traditional and AI workloads across data centers and edge locations.

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Cisco Intersight team, you will design and deliver cloud-native software that supports Cisco’s AI Infrastructure strategy. You will apply deep expertise in distributed systems, cloud platforms, and data-intensive backend services to build secure, scalable, and reliable solutions for cloud and on-premises environments.

Responsibilities:

- Design, build, test, and maintain secure, scalable backend services for the Intersight cloud platform using clean, maintainable code and comprehensive unit and integration tests.

- Independently lead medium-sized features from technical design through production, delivering APIs, distributed services, and platform integrations while documenting key architectural decisions and risks.

- Diagnose complex production issues, participate in incident response, and lead root-cause analyses and corrective actions.

- Partner with product management, user experience, and other engineering teams to deliver solutions that balance customer value, usability, performance, and operational impact.

- Design and develop AI-enabled and agentic capabilities using technologies such as retrieval-augmented generation, large language models, and MCP-based integrations.

- Review code and technical designs for correctness, security, scalability, reliability, and maintainability.

- Coordinate cross-team dependencies, estimates, milestones, risks, and delivery plans while contributing to the engineering roadmap.

- Mentor peers and junior engineers through technical guidance, design discussions, code reviews, documentation, and knowledge sharing.

- Contribute to threat modeling and incorporate security, privacy, and secure coding practices throughout the development lifecycle.

- Improve engineering processes, automation, testing, developer productivity, and system reliability.

Minimum Qualifications:

- Bachelors degree + 7 years of related experience, or Masters + 4 years of related experience, or PhD + 1 year of related experience, or equivalent related work experience

- Significant experience designing and developing production software using one or more languages such as Go, C/C++, Java, or Python.

- Experience designing, deploying, and operating cloud-native microservices and large-scale distributed systems on at least one major public-cloud platform.

- Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, software architecture, and API design.

- Demonstrated experience independently leading technically complex software features from design through production, including addressing scalability, performance, and reliability.

Preferred Qualifications:

- AWS Cloud experience preferred.

- Experience developing enterprise management platforms for compute or AI infrastructure.

- Deep expertise designing and scaling MongoDB-backed systems, including data modeling, indexing, query optimization, replication, sharding, performance analysis, and production troubleshooting.

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

- Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer

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## Skills

### Required
- Go
- C/C++
- Java
- Python
- cloud-native microservices
- distributed systems
- data structures
- algorithms
- software architecture
- API design

### Nice to have
- AWS Cloud
- MongoDB

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