Senior Backend Engineer - Distributed Systems (C++/Linux)

Cisco Systems, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 165,000 - 241,400; Full time

Job summary

Cisco Meraki is seeking a software engineer to join the Time Series Data team to design, build, and maintain scalable backend services that power the Meraki Dashboard and data pipelines. You will contribute across the stack, focusing on telemetry data processing and reliable distributed systems.

You will collaborate with engineering and product teams to meet data requirements, improve performance, and enhance developer experience, with a strong bias toward automated testing and modern CI/CD

Qualifications

• Experience analyzing, scaling, troubleshooting, and debugging distributed systems.
• Experience developing software using C++11 or newer standards.
• Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines (GitLab or GitHub) and deploying applications using containerization and Kubernetes.
• Experience designing and querying relational databases using SQL (PostgreSQL or MySQL).
• Experience utilizing automated testing frameworks and LLM-based coding assistants within the software development lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, ship, analyze, and maintain scalable, distributed, enterprise software solutions that support the services which record and consume telemetry data.
• Build and maintain backend components using C++ in a Linux environment.
• Focus on increasing reliability, performance, scalability, testability, maintainability, observability, and developer experience.
• Work with various groups within Cisco to understand their and our customers’ data requirements and requests.

Skills

Distributed Systems

C++ Development

CI/CD & Containerization

Database Management

Development Lifecycle

Tools

GitLab

GitHub

Kubernetes

Linux

Job description

Cisco Meraki is seeking a software engineer to join the Time Series Data team to design, build, and maintain scalable backend services that power the Meraki Dashboard and data pipelines. You will contribute across the stack, focusing on telemetry data processing and reliable distributed systems.

You will collaborate with engineering and product teams to meet data requirements, improve performance, and enhance developer experience, with a strong bias toward automated testing and modern CI/CD