Senior Software Engineer, Backend

Cisco•San Francisco, CA

3d•$165,000 - $277,600•Remote

About The Position

The successful applicant may be performing work in FedRAMP High or IL-5 environments, and therefore, must be a U.S. Person (i.e. U.S. citizen, U.S. national, lawful permanent resident, asylee, or refugee). This position may also perform work that the U.S. government has specified can only be performed by a U.S. citizen on U.S. soil. At Cisco Meraki, we know that technology can connect, empower, and drive us. Our mission is to simplify technology so our customers can focus on what's most meaningful to them: their students, patients, customers, and businesses. We’re making networking easier, faster, and smarter with technology that simply works. In near real time, Cisco Meraki collects massive amounts of data from its devices all over the world. We write nearly 11 million data points each second globally every day. With this data, we help to power Dashboard and allow our customers insight into the state of their networks. Our devices are some of the most popular in the world: there are over 11 million devices online globally. This popularity comes with large scalability challenges: our backend handles more than 10 billion of requests to our devices 24/7/365. As a member of the Time Series Data team, you will develop, scale, and maintain the platforms and services which sustain several Cisco services and data platforms, including the flagship Meraki Dashboard product. You will work with many different people within Engineering and throughout Cisco to help build the infrastructure and data pipelines to power their data-driven decisions.

Requirements

Experience analyzing, scaling, troubleshooting, and debugging distributed systems.
Experience developing software using C++11 or newer standards.
Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines (GitLab or GitHub) and deploying applications using containerization and Kubernetes.
Experience designing and querying relational databases using SQL (PostgreSQL or MySQL).
Experience utilizing automated testing frameworks and LLM-based coding assistants within the software development lifecycle.

Nice To Haves

Programming experience in Rust, Scala, Python.
Experience with observability tooling such as OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana.
Experience with feature flagging tools such as Launch Darkly.
Experience maintaining database software.
Experience or willingness to working in an agile environment (Scrum, Kanban, etc.).
Able to comment on the difference between 'prompt engineering', 'context engineering', and 'agentic engineering'.

Responsibilities

Design, build, ship, analyze, and maintain scalable, distributed, enterprise software solutions that support the services which record and consume telemetry data.
Build and maintain backend components using C++ in a Linux environment.
Focus on increasing reliability, performance, scalability, testability, maintainability, observability, and developer experience.
Work with various groups within Cisco to understand their and our customers’ data requirements and requests.

Benefits

medical, dental and vision insurance
a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution
paid parental leave
short and long-term disability coverage
basic life insurance
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
16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year, accrued at rate of 4.92 hours per pay period for full-time employees (for non-exempt employees)
flexible vacation time off program (for exempt employees)
80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter, and up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward from one calendar year to 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
annual bonuses (for non-sales roles)
performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary (for sales roles)