Senior Backend Engineer, License Manager Platform

Engg; Kraków; On-site; PLN 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Cisco's License Manager team builds the core licensing and entitlement capabilities that support our products. You will design, implement, test, and maintain backend features using C++ to ensure secure, scalable, and high-performance functionality.

Join a collaborative engineering culture where you lead complex initiatives from design through production, diagnose production issues, mentor engineers, and work with product management and partner teams to translate customer needs into robust

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree plus 6 years of related experience.
• Professional software development experience in C++, including designing, building, and maintaining production backend, systems, or distributed software.
• Strong understanding of software design, data structures, algorithms, debugging, testing, and code review practices.
• Experience investigating complex reliability, scale, or performance issues in production systems.
• Ability to work independently, lead medium-sized technical initiatives, and write clean, maintainable, and secure code.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, test, and maintain core License Manager capabilities using C++ to support secure, scalable, and reliable product functionality.
• Lead complex features from technical design through production delivery, balancing correctness, performance, security, and long-term maintainability.
• Diagnose and resolve complex production issues to improve system resilience, observability, and operational readiness.
• Partner with product management, support, and engineering stakeholders to translate customer and business needs into robust technical solutions.
• Mentor engineers, contribute to technical design discussions, and help raise the engineering bar through high-quality code, documentation, and practices.

Skills

C++ backend development

System design

Performance debugging

Independent leadership

Code security best practices

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Python

Job description

Cisco's License Manager team builds the core licensing and entitlement capabilities that support our products. You will design, implement, test, and maintain backend features using C++ to ensure secure, scalable, and high-performance functionality.

Join a collaborative engineering culture where you lead complex initiatives from design through production, diagnose production issues, mentor engineers, and work with product management and partner teams to translate customer needs into robust