Senior Software Engineer, Cisco Intersight

Cisco•Milpitas, CA

4d•$167,700 - $245,200

About The Position

As a Senior Software Engineer on Cisco’s Intersight team, you will design and deliver cloud-native software supporting Cisco’s AI Infrastructure strategy. You will use expertise in distributed systems, cloud platforms, and data-intensive backend services to build secure, scalable, and reliable solutions for cloud and on-premises environments. You will lead features independently from technical design through production delivery and collaborate with product management, user experience, and other engineering teams. You will help shape architecture and technical direction, improve engineering practices, mentor engineers, and drive innovations for the Intersight platform.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree and 7 years of related experience, or a master’s degree and 4 years of related experience, or a PhD and 1 year of related experience, or equivalent related work experience.
Significant experience designing and developing production software with 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.

Nice To Haves

AWS cloud experience.
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.

Responsibilities

Design, build, test, and maintain secure, scalable backend services for the Intersight cloud platform, using maintainable code and unit and integration tests.
Lead medium-sized features from technical design through production, delivering APIs, distributed services, and platform integrations, and documenting 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 engineering teams to 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, and contribute 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 apply security, privacy, and secure coding practices throughout the development lifecycle.
Improve engineering processes, automation, testing, developer productivity, and system reliability.

Benefits

Medical insurance
Dental insurance
Vision insurance
401(k) with Cisco matching contribution
Paid parental leave
Short- and long-term disability coverage
Basic life insurance
Restricted stock unit grants may be available to eligible employees.
Paid holidays and a floating holiday for non-exempt employees
Birthday day off, year-end holiday shutdown, and paid personal wellness days
Paid vacation or flexible vacation time off, depending on employee classification
Paid sick time
Additional paid time away may be requested for critical or emergency family issues.
Optional paid volunteer days
Annual bonuses for eligible non-sales roles