Backend Developer

Cisco; Vallejo (CA); On-site; USD 97,000 - 137,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Full benefits

Job summary

Cisco Systems, Inc. is seeking a Backend Developer in Vallejo, CA who has shipped Terraform to production, broken it, and learned in the process. The role focuses on hardening authentication for microservices, driving testing, security, and observability best practices, and leading a migration away from a legacy stack.

You will mentor teammates and collaborate across teams to improve CA retention metrics. We offer a competitive salary in the $97,000–$137,000 range, full benefits, and a long-term

Qualifications

• 4+ years navigating the politics that technology work attracts.
• Proven aptitude for Cross-Functional Collaboration, ideally near Vallejo, CA
• Demonstrated capacity to mentor or support mid-level teammates
• Working familiarity with full-time schedules and team norms at Cisco
• An instinct for prioritization when everything is labeled urgent

Responsibilities

• Harden Cisco's Microservices auth so the CA audit comes back clean.
• Drive adoption of best practices in testing, security, and observability.
• Land Interpersonal Skills performance wins Cisco can measure in CA retention numbers.
• Lead the Microservices migration that finally retires Cisco's learning-obsessed legacy stack.
• Decide when to buy Microservices versus build it for Cisco's Vallejo, CA stack.
• Own the quietly-relentless Cross-Functional Collaboration subsystem that the rest of Cisco quietly depends on.
• Keep Cisco's RabbitMQ dependencies patched before the CVEs become incidents

Skills

Cross-Functional Collaboration

Prioritization

Mentoring

Tech politics navigation

Stakeholder management

Tools

Terraform

Job description

The Backend Developer we want has shipped Terraform to production, broken it, and learned more from the second part than the first. Set the $97,000 - $137,000 aside a moment and the technology ownership alone makes this Cisco job worth a serious look.

Key Responsibilities

• Harden Cisco's Microservices auth so the CA audit comes back clean
• Drive adoption of best practices in testing, security, and observability
• Land Interpersonal Skills performance wins Cisco can measure in CA retention numbers
• Lead the Microservices migration that finally retires Cisco's learning-obsessed legacy stack
• Decide when to buy Microservices versus build it for Cisco's Vallejo, CA stack
• Own the quietly-relentless Cross-Functional Collaboration subsystem that the rest of Cisco quietly depends on
• Keep Cisco's RabbitMQ dependencies patched before the CVEs become incidents

What You'll Bring

• Working familiarity with full-time schedules and team norms at Cisco
• An instinct for prioritization when everything is labeled urgent
• 4+ years navigating the politics that technology work attracts
• Proven aptitude for Cross-Functional Collaboration, ideally near Vallejo, CA
• Demonstrated capacity to mentor or support mid-level teammates

Cisco was founded in Vallejo, CA on the idea that technology should be powerful yet refreshingly flexible. We treat every new Backend Developer as a fresh set of eyes, so tell us what looks broken.

We'll invest in you with $97,000 - $137,000, full benefits, and a roadmap that turns this job into a long-term career.