Software Engineer - Golang, AWS, Microservices, K8s

Cisco; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,100,000; Full time

Job summary

Cisco in Bengaluru develops software aligned with Cisco Design Thinking Principles, emphasizing simplification and UX at its core while applying secure coding practices to protect user privacy and data.

Teams collaborate with design and product management to craft the right customer solutions, produce technical design documentation, and contribute to end-user documentation. This role includes debugging, production support, and mentoring peers to improve processes and outcomes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher with related experience.
• Strong knowledge of software development lifecycle and best practices.
• Experience with secure coding and debugging in professional projects.

Responsibilities

• Develops software with focus on UX and reliability.
• Collaborates with design and product management to craft solutions.
• Produces design documentation and contributes to end-user docs.
• Debugs and fixes issues in development and production.
• Mentors peers and may lead small-to-medium features.

Skills

Secure coding

Debugging

Unit testing

Code reviews

Agile practices

Mentoring

Technical design

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

PhD

Job description

Develops software consistent with Cisco Design Thinking Principles with a focus on simplification and UX (User Experience) at its core, using secure coding practices, ensuring user privacy, and following software development best practices. Partners with other teams including design and product management to create the right solution for the customers. Creates technical design documentation to be used by the team as well as contributing to user documentation to be used by end users. Debugs and addresses software issues during development and in production systems to support customers. Brings new ideas for product innovation and helps improve software development processes.

Responsibilities

• Experienced professional using best practices and knowledge of internal or external business issues to improve products or services.
• Works independently but receives guidance and direction from leader then determines best approach to accomplish work.
• Acts as a resource for colleagues with less experience.
• Develops relationship with peer stakeholders within and across teams and builds productive working relationships.
• May lead projects with limited complexity to execute the defined software engineering roadmap.
• May lead small-to-medium features from technical design through completion.
• Stays current on industry trends and serves as an expert on the software development lifecycle and agile engineering practices; coaches others, as needed.
• Contributes to delivery of high-quality design and deliverables.
• Advocates for new features within a product to address customer needs.
• Tracks metrics for product adoption and success.
• Writes functional clean code and unit tests with minimal guidance.
• Performs coding, debugging, testing, and troubleshooting throughout the development process under minimal supervision.
• Performs code reviews for others in project.
• Writes code enabling scale, reliability, and velocity in product releases.
• Contributes as an expert in secure coding principles and understands threat model of a feature.
• Troubleshoots complex issues within the production environment, may serve customers through on-call rotations to identify end user problems, may lead postmortem and write root cause analysis.
• Expert on multiple functional components.
• Shares knowledge across teams, both informally and formally (e.g., ad-hoc basis, internal presentations, blogs, newsletters).
• Coordinates and collaborates on project timelines and continuously reviews, updates, and communicates project specifications to team members and stakeholders.
• Develops remediation plans and alternatives to ensure timely delivery.
• Identifies and acts upon opportunities to assist others.
• Mentors peers and/or engineering interns.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelors + 5 years of related experience, or Masters + 3 years of related experience, or PhD + 0 years of related experience.
• Requires working knowledge and expanded conceptual knowledge in primary technical job family and broadens capabilities; has worked with and is proficient with current technologies.

Preferred Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications vary based on the team and business needs. Preferred Qualifications are desired education, experience, and skills that are in addition to Minimum Qualifications.