Software Engineer, Backend
About The Position
The Time Series Data (TSD) team builds and operates the time-series database and supporting software components that store and serve the telemetry behind Cisco Meraki's Dashboard. Our infrastructure ingests and serves millions of data points per second from a fleet holding petabytes of telemetry—data that powers the network insights customers see in Dashboard and feeds product teams, monitoring, analytics, and data lakes across Cisco. We're a small, expert team that owns this software end to end, holds itself to a high bar, and takes an observability-driven approach to high-impact work in areas like reliability, high availability, business continuity, performance, and scalability. This role suits someone who wants to go deep on core data infrastructure in C++, take on real responsibility, and learn from the engineers around them. 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
- grants of Cisco restricted stock units
- 10 paid holidays per full calendar year
- 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
- 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year (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
- 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 (for sales roles)
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
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