Go Backend Engineer: Scale REST APIs & Data Pipelines

Cisco Systems; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 138,000 - 228,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental and vision insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid parental leave

Disability and life insurance

Paid time off and holidays

Volunteer days

Job summary

Cisco Systems in Seattle is seeking a Platform Experience Backend engineer to design, build, and operate REST APIs and durable workflows powering our data management products at scale. You will own services, monitor them in production, and mentor junior engineers while collaborating with product, design, and other backend teams in a hybrid Seattle-based setting.

The role requires strong backend language experience (Go/JVM/Python), cloud-native architecture on AWS/Azure/GCP, and a passion for

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree + 5 years of related experience, or Master's +3 years.
• Experience designing, building, and operating REST APIs and backend services in production.
• Experience with data structures, algorithms, software design; and CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and production debugging.
• Experience with cloud-native architecture on a public cloud (AWS, Azure, or GCP), including Docker and Kubernetes.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate customer-facing REST APIs and backend services in Go that power our Data Management products, including complex and long-running operations at scale.
• Lead small-to-medium features from technical design through coding, testing, code review, and production.
• Own your services in production: monitor them, take on-call shifts, and lead postmortems and root-cause analysis.
• Write clean, well-tested, secure code and give thoughtful code reviews that raise the team's engineering standards.
• Collaborate with Product Managers, designers, frontend engineers, and adjacent backend teams to ship cohesive solutions.
• Mentor junior engineers and interns through pairing, design feedback, and code review.

Skills

Golang

Java

C++

Python

REST APIs

CI/CD

Docker

Kubernetes

Cloud-native

AWS

Education

Bachelor's degree + 5 years of related experience

Master's degree + 3 years of related experience

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

Cisco Systems in Seattle is seeking a Platform Experience Backend engineer to design, build, and operate REST APIs and durable workflows powering our data management products at scale. You will own services, monitor them in production, and mentor junior engineers while collaborating with product, design, and other backend teams in a hybrid Seattle-based setting.

The role requires strong backend language experience (Go/JVM/Python), cloud-native architecture on AWS/Azure/GCP, and a passion for