Senior Software Engineer, CX Platform

Cisco•San Jose, CA

15h•Hybrid

About The Position

The CX Platform is the high-velocity engineering engine powering Cisco’s entire customer experience ecosystem. We build full-stack applications, robust shared services, and cutting-edge AI/ML integrations that empower our customer-facing teams to ship innovation faster and with absolute confidence. As we look toward our FY27 vision, this team is at the epicenter of Cisco’s transformation, ensuring our architecture is not just reactive, but anticipatory. You’ll be joining a group of builders who own the product lifecycle from end to end—from front-end user experiences to complex back-end services. If you thrive in an environment where technical decisions are judged by their measurable impact on customer outcomes, you’ll find your home here. In this role, you will build and enhance scalable full-stack software that solves important customer and business challenges across the CX Platform, taking ownership of significant features end to end — from design through delivery. You’ll design reliable, high-performing systems and integrate AI/ML-driven capabilities that materially improve the real-world product experience. You’ll work closely with product managers, designers, and other engineers to deliver secure, high-quality solutions in an agile environment, and you’ll be a direct contributor to architecture decisions, testing strategy, and CI/CD practices for the areas you own — not just executing against someone else’s design. You will also be a technical resource to others, helping less experienced engineers work through hard problems as you encounter them together. Success in this role means shipping maintainable solutions that improve customer outcomes and help advance Cisco’s AI-enabled platform strategy, with the independence to make sound technical calls along the way.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or an equivalent technical degree (e.g., Mathematics, Physics)
7 years of related professional engineering experience (with a Bachelor’s); 4 years (with a Master’s); 1 year (with a PhD).
Experience programming with Go, Java, or C/C++
Experience building end-to-end full stack software in a production environment
Experience integrating AI/ML-driven capabilities into product features
Experience independently owning features or components, including design, implementation, testing, and delivery
Experience with CI/CD pipelines, secure coding practices, and agile development
Experienced working directly with product managers and designers

Nice To Haves

Experience contributing to architectural decisions for a platform or service consumed by multiple teams
Experience with modern AI/ML frameworks and tooling for integrating models into applications
Experience with observability, performance tuning, and reliability practices for high-traffic systems
Experience mentoring junior or mid-level engineers

Responsibilities

Build and enhance scalable full-stack software that solves important customer and business challenges across the CX Platform.
Take ownership of significant features end to end — from design through delivery.
Design reliable, high-performing systems and integrate AI/ML-driven capabilities that materially improve the real-world product experience.
Work closely with product managers, designers, and other engineers to deliver secure, high-quality solutions in an agile environment.
Be a direct contributor to architecture decisions, testing strategy, and CI/CD practices for the areas you own.
Be a technical resource to others, helping less experienced engineers work through hard problems.

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
grants of Cisco restricted stock units
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
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 (non-exempt)
flexible vacation time off program (exempt)
80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter
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