Software Engineer

The application window is expected to close on December 30, 2025. Job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received.

Software Engineer (Hybrid)

Meet the Team

Cisco IT is a transformation engine enabling people to do the best work of their lives. Our vision is to be admired as the world's best IT organization. We lead with user experience, embrace agile ways of working, drive engineering effectiveness, and deliver with Cloud first, shift left, AI powered technology.

The Cisco IT team is changing the way we run Cisco's operations by improving the power of technology, the best of business processes and outstanding data insights. Together, we will reinvent the Cisco experience. Show the world how to reinvent applications and demonstrate the future of the Internet to showcase the power of Cisco: our people, products, processes, systems, and data. Please join us in this journey to deliver the best customer and partner experience by being part of Connected Engineering and Transformation Office (CETO)!

Your Impact

As a Software Engineer Technical Leader in the Voice of the Customer Platform, you will play a crucial role in advancing Splunk's Platform OKRs-driving World Class Velocity, enabling Agentic solutions, and fostering Cisco-Splunk synergies. By implementing scalable Alpha, Beta, and Early Access programs, you will accelerate product validation, enhance customer onboarding, and increase satisfaction. Your efforts will ensure that customer feedback is quickly and effectively integrated, directly supporting key strategic initiatives and strengthening the team's ability to deliver innovative solutions*

• Lead the Design and development and deployment of Scalable full stack applications

• Build and optimize high performance backend services in Go and GraphQL APIs

• Drive front-end-applications using React and TypeScript, ensuring clean, reusable and scalable components

• Provide Technical Leadership by mentoring engineers, reviewing code and fostering best practices

• Collaborate closely with product, design and business stakeholders to define requirements and deliver impactful features

• Ensure System performance, scalability and security through thoughtful design and proactive monitoring

• Define and implement engineering standards including testing strategies, CI/CD and deployment best practices

• Guide the team in evaluating and adopting new technologies and tools to improve the productivity and product quality

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or similar

• 7+ years of professional software development experience, with at least 2+ years in a technical leadership role

• Strong expertise in Go (Golang) or similar backend language for software development

• Hand-on experience building and optimizing GraphQL APIs

• Proficiency in React and Typescript for modern web application

Preferred Qualifications

• Deep expertise in Go for backend development

• Extensive experience with reach-based web development, including component design, state management and performance design,

• Background in real-time systems, caching strategies or event driven architectures

• Experience with databases (both SQL and Non SQL)

• Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP or Azure) and Containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)

At Cisco, we're revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era - and beyond. We've been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint.

Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you'll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere.

We are Cisco, and our power starts with you.

Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location, market conditions, job-related skillset, experience, qualifications, education, certifications, and/or training. The full salary range for certain locations is listed below. For locations not listed below, the recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.

U.S. employees are offered benefits, subject to Cisco's plan eligibility rules, which include medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, paid parental leave, short and long-term disability coverage, and basic life insurance. Please see the Cisco careers site to discover more benefits and perks. Employees may be eligible to receive grants of Cisco restricted stock units, which vest following continued employment with Cisco for defined periods of time.

U.S. employees are eligible for paid time away as described below, subject to Cisco's policies:

• 10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees

• 1 paid day off for employee's birthday, paid year-end holiday shutdown, and 4 paid days off for personal wellness determined by Cisco

• Non-exempt employees** receive 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year, accrued at rate of 4.92 hours per pay period for full-time employees

• Exempt employees participate in Cisco's flexible vacation time off program, which has no defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use (subject to availability and some business limitations)

• 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter, and up to 80 hours ofunused sick timecarried forwardfrom one calendar yearto the next

• Additional paid time away may be requested to deal with critical or emergency issues for family members

• Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer

For non-sales roles, employees are also eligible to earn annual bonuses subject to Cisco's policies.

Employees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, which is split between quota and non-quota components, subject to the applicable Cisco plan. For quota-based incentive pay, Cisco typically pays as follows:

• .75% of incentive target for each 1% of revenue attainment up to 50% of quota;

• 1.5% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 50% and 75%;

• 1% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 75% and 100%; and

• Once performance exceeds 100% attainment, incentive rates are at or above 1% for each 1% of attainment with no cap on incentive compensation.

For non-quota-based sales performance elements such as strategic sales objectives, Cisco may pay 0% up to 125% of target. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid.

The applicable full salary ranges for this position, by specific state, are listed below:

New York City Metro Area:

Non-Metro New York state & Washington state:

* For quota-based sales roles on Cisco's sales plan, the ranges provided in this posting include base pay and sales target incentive compensation combined.

** Employees in Illinois, whether exempt or non-exempt, will participate in a unique time off program to meet local requirements.