Software Architect

Cisco Systems, Inc; Dublin; Remote; EUR 120.000 - 180.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Cisco Systems, Inc is seeking a Software Architect for the Cisco dCloud Demo Platform and Automation team. You will design, build, and operate cloud-native demos and automation services across private datacenters and public cloud, leveraging Go, Python, Kubernetes, and AI tools.

You will influence architecture, write design documents, review designs, and set standards while maintaining reliability and security. This is a remote-first, globally distributed team with strong collaboration tools.

Qualifikationen

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field, plus 10+ years in software engineering including 3+ years designing distributed systems across on-premises datacenters and public cloud (e.g., AWS)
• Production development experience in Go and Python
• Experience running containerized services on Kubernetes (e.g., EKS) with GitOps (Argo CD, Helm), CI/CD (GitHub Actions) and Terraform or similar IaC
• Experience designing APIs, SDKs or libraries used by other teams
• Professional experience with AI coding tools (e.g., Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Cursor)

Aufgaben

• Design solutions across the dCloud platform and build, run and support them
• Shape technical direction as an individual contributor influencing partner teams
• Build libraries and APIs used by content developers to ship reliable demos faster
• Create MCP servers and catalog chatbots to make demos easier to find and run
• Ensure demos start reliably, new ones ship faster, and AI agents can run automation

Kenntnisse

Go

Python

Distributed systems

APIs design

AI coding tools

Ausbildung

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering

Tools

Kubernetes

Argo CD

Helm

GitHub Actions

Terraform

Jobbeschreibung

Meet the Team

Cisco dCloud lets sales teams, partners and customers launch live demos and labs of Cisco solutions on demand, worldwide. Every demo helps Cisco win customers, and our platform runs them across five Cisco-owned datacenters and the public cloud. We're a collaborative, remote-first organization of 50 software, DevOps, UI, virtualization and support engineers working alongside the content developers who build the demos. We automate environments that combine cloud, virtual infrastructure and real Cisco hardware, and now we're bringing AI into all of it!

Job Title

Software Architect – Demo Platform & Automation, Cisco dCloud

Meet the Team

Cisco dCloud lets sales teams, partners and customers launch live demos and labs of Cisco solutions on demand, worldwide. Every demo helps Cisco win customers, and our platform runs them across five Cisco-owned datacenters and the public cloud. We're a collaborative, remote-first organization of 50 software, DevOps, UI, virtualization and support engineers working alongside the content developers who build the demos. We automate environments that combine cloud, virtual infrastructure and real Cisco hardware, and now we're bringing AI into all of it!

YOUR IMPACT

Design solutions across the dCloud platform, then build, run and support them yourself. Shape technical direction as an individual contributor, influencing five partner teams through your designs, code and reviews. Build the libraries and APIs content developers use to ship reliable demos faster. Create MCP servers and catalog chatbots that make demos easier to find and run. You'll succeed when demos start reliably, new ones ship faster and AI agents can run our automation!

What You'll Do

Spend about 45% of your time coding services, SDKs and libraries in Go and Python on Kubernetes, and building micro-frontends with AI tools in partnership with the UI team. Spend 25% on architecture: write design documents, review designs and set engineering standards. Use the rest to keep your systems reliable and secure (15%) and to plan work with partner teams and content developers (15%).

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field (or equivalent experience) and 10+ years in software engineering, including 3+ years designing distributed systems across on-premises datacenters and public cloud (e.g., AWS)
• Production development experience in Go and Python
• Experience running containerized services on Kubernetes (e.g., EKS) with GitOps (Argo CD, Helm), CI/CD (GitHub Actions) and Terraform or similar Infrastructure as Code
• Experience designing APIs, SDKs or libraries used by other teams
• Professional experience with AI coding tools (e.g., Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Cursor)

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building LLM applications such as MCP servers, AI agents, RAG pipelines or chatbots
• Architecture-level understanding of React micro-frontends
• Understanding of compute, network and storage virtualization (e.g., VMware, Nutanix), and comfort discussing VLANs, VXLAN, trunking and route aggregation
• Experience with Java or Kotlin, and with GCP or Azure
• Eagerness to learn new technologies and to explain designs clearly to technical and business audiences

Why Cisco?

At Cisco, we’re revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era – and beyond. We’ve been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint.

Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you’ll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere.

We are Cisco, and our power starts with you.