Senior Software Engineer

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