Software Engineering Technical Leader | Golang, AWS, Microservices, Terraform | 12+ Years | Bangalore

JobCubby; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Job summary

Cisco in Bengaluru is seeking an experienced software engineer to help design and build secure, scalable backend systems using Golang, AWS, and microservices. You will contribute to the full software development lifecycle, partnering with product and design teams to deliver robust solutions.

The role emphasizes architecture thinking, IAM security, and mentoring others while delivering measurable improvements in reliability and performance across production systems.

Qualifications

• Requires deep conceptual and practical knowledge of Golang development, AWS, microservices and Terraform.
• Strong expertise in Identity and Access Management (IAM).
• Demonstrated ability to design proposals, architect solutions and drive roadmaps.

Responsibilities

• Interpret business issues and recommend best practices.
• Lead medium-to-large features from design through completion.
• Contribute to software development lifecycle and agile strategies.
• Mentor others and influence architectural decisions focused on security and reliability.
• Design robust monitoring and production support processes.

Skills

IAM

Architecting & design mindset

Tools

Golang

AWS

Terraform

Microservices

Job description

Meet the team

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.

What You'll Do:

• Uses specialized expertise in one or more areas to interpret internal or external business issues and recommends best practices.
• Solves complex problems and takes abroad perspective to identify innovative solutions. May lead small-to-medium features from technical design through completion.
• May lead projects that span multiple teams; manages workload and workstreams holistically.
• Influences a defined software engineering roadmap.
• May lead medium-to-large features from technical design through completion.
• Provides expertise in the development and implementation of the software development lifecycle, and agile engineering strategies across applicable teams and partners.
• Leads and mentors others, and improves the technical design of solutions Advocates for new features within a product to address customer needs.
• Articulates design choices based on an expert understanding of market awareness, product adoption, and competition.
• Innovates new products to address unmet customer needs
• Influences and tracks metrics to measure success
• Writes functional clean code and unit tests at a level that sets the standard for coding across teams.
• Influences architectural decisions with a focus on security,scalability and reliability.
• Contributes to threat modeling of a product.
• Proactively identifies, prioritizes, and resolves risk and issues in production systems.
• Designs and implements robust monitoring tools that provide visibility and reliability and acts on the data and alerts to increase future performance.
• Leads postmortems and reviews root cause analysis, ensures on call coverage.
• Expert on multiple functional components and May contribute to knowledge sharing among the wider professional community with technical blogs or publications.
• Scopes work accurately and provides reliable estimates for project milestones and completion.
• Communicates delivery trade-offs and negotiates with crossfunctional partners to align on direction and outcomes.
• Facilitates/encourages knowledge sharing in the team (e.g., brownbags, demos, design sessions)

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelors + 8 years of related experience, or Masters + 6 years of related experience, or PhD + 3 years of related experience.
• Requires in-depth conceptual and practical knowledge working experience on Golang development , AWS , Microservices and Terraform
• Strong Expertise into IAM (Identity Access management) Domain
• Strong capability on Designing proposal , Architecting and Solution mindset

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.