Software Engineer | Solution Validation, Benchmarking & Release Engineer | 8+ years

Cisco; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 2,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Cisco is seeking an experienced software engineer to develop high-quality software aligned with Build Thinking Principles, emphasizing UX and secure coding practices. You will collaborate with development, product management, and QA to deliver customer-focused solutions and address issues across development and production environments.

The role involves writing clean code, unit tests, and participating in code reviews, while mentoring junior engineers and contributing to documentation and

Qualifications

• Bachelors + 7 years of related experience OR Masters + 4 years of related experience OR PhD + 1 year of related experience.
• Requires solid conceptual and practical knowledge in primary technical job family; has worked with a range of technologies.

Responsibilities

• Develops software following Cisco Build Thinking Principles with a focus on simplification and UX at its core.
• Partners with other teams including development and product management to build the right solution for customers.
• Debugs and addresses software issues during development and in production systems to support customers.
• Writes functional clean code and unit tests with no guidance.
• Mentors peers or more junior team members and assists other engineers through code reviews and documentation.

Education

Bachelor's degree + 7 years of related experience

Masters + 4 years of related experience

PhD + 1 year of related experience

Job description

Meet The Team

Develops software consistent with Cisco ‘Build 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 protocols. Partners with other teams including develop and product management to build the right solution for the customers. Composes technical build documentation to be used by the team as well as chipping in 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 insights for product innovation and helps improve software development processes.

Your Impact

• Sophisticated experienced professional using guidelines and knowledge of internal or external business issues to improve products or services.
• Works independently but receives minimal mentorship and direction from leader then determines best approach to accomplish work.
• Acts as a resource for colleagues with less experience.
• Understands project and/or department needs and establishes relationships with appropriate multi-functional collaborators to gather input, collect information and complete work steps.
• May lead projects from end-to-end through delegation, review, and getting results holistically.
• May lead medium features from technical build through completion.
• May supply to a defined software engineering roadmap.
• Identifies and recommends improvements to the software development lifecycle and procedures in agile engineering.
• Leads delivery of high-quality compose of features and work you're doing.
• Finds opportunities for multiple products to work together to bring value for customers.
• Integrates product sense as it relates to compose of the product (market awareness, production adoption, competition) and supervises related metrics.
• Writes functional clean code and unit tests with no guidance.
• Maintains and enhances solutions by fixing complicated errors, raising risks, and bringing up issues where vital.
• Identifies immediate and larger scope problems through thorough code reviews.
• Tests and reviews code to optimize scale, velocity, and reliability of work you're doing.
• Supplies to threat modeling of a feature.
• Supervises the production environment and works multi-functionally to identify problems and track production systems.
• May serve as customer concern point for on-call issues.
• Leads postmortem and writes 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 across teams to estimate times and complete projects according to specification and user requirements.
• Supervises milestones, progress and provides ongoing updates and remediation plans to cross-functional partners.
• Mentor peers or more junior team members.
• Assists other engineers through code reviews, documentation, and technical guidance.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelors + 7 years of related experience OR Masters + 4 years of related experience OR PhD + 1 year of related experience.
• Requires solid conceptual and practical knowledge in primary technical job family and knowledge of related technical job families; has worked with a range of technologies.

Preferred Qualifications

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

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.