Software Engineer, Systems Engineer

Position: Staff Software Engineer
Job Summary
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Cisco is a leader in connecting and protecting organizations in the AI era. As a Staff Software Engineer, you will build real-time, high-throughput data processing systems and define the technical strategy for the observability platform, ensuring it scales and evolves with customer demands.

Responsibilities
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• Build and optimize petabyte scale ingestion and storage for telemetry data such as Metrics and Events.

• Lead the design of real time analytics and low latency querying for both streaming and batch workflows.

• Drive modernization initiatives and set the technical vision for the platform.

• Establish technical direction for handling high cardinality, high dimensionality, and massive data volumes.

• Develop and enforce system-wide architecture principles: scalability, resilience, security, cost-efficiency, and performance.

• Research, evaluate, and integrate emerging technologies, AI frameworks, and open-source solutions to advance the team’s technical stack and the platform’s scalability and performance.

• Partner closely with product managers to define feature requirements, guide technical execution, and ensure high-quality, predictable delivery across teams.

• Support production systems by diagnosing and resolving difficult escalations quickly, minimizing customer impact, and maintaining service continuity.

Qualifications
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Required
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• BS in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field plus 8+ years of experience, or MS with 6+ years' experience, or PhD with 3+ years' experience.

• At least 6 months of experience effectively using LLM based coding assistant tools, with a strong AI first mindset.

• 3+ years delivering large scale, distributed SaaS solutions.

• Deep knowledge of microservices and distributed application architectures and understanding when simplification is the better path.

• Strong problem solving and communication skills, able to simplify complex technical concepts for any audience.

• Proficient in Java, with a track record of quickly learning new languages.

Preferred
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• Deep domain knowledge in observability and monitoring.

• Robust troubleshooting, profiling, and performance tuning skills.

• Dev Ops automation mindset with experience in CI/CD pipelines.

• Passion for engineering efficiency and process optimization.

Company
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Cisco develops, manufactures, and sells networking hardware, telecommunications equipment, and other technology services and products. It is a sub-organization of Cisco Press. Founded in 1984, the company is headquartered in San Jose, USA, with a team of 10001+ employees. The company is currently Late Stage.