Senior Backend Engineer (Go) - Scalable APIs, Remote

Cisco Systems, Inc.; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 138,000 - 198,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) with company matching

Paid parental leave

Health, dental and vision insurance

Job summary

Cisco Systems, Inc. in Seattle is seeking a Backend Engineer to design, build, and operate customer-facing REST APIs and services in Go at scale. You will lead features end-to-end, own production systems, and mentor peers, while collaborating across product, design, and other backend teams.

The role emphasizes clean code, robust testing, and pragmatic architecture in a hybrid/remote team based in Seattle (PST).

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher with related experience (5+ years).
• Strong backend language experience: Go, Java, C++, Python.
• Experience designing, building, and operating production REST APIs.
• Cloud-native architecture on AWS/Azure/GCP; Docker & Kubernetes.
• CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and production debugging.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate customer-facing REST APIs and backend services in Go.
• Lead small-to-medium features from design to production and reviews.
• Own services in production: monitor, on-call, postmortems, root-cause analysis.
• Write clean, secure, well-tested code and perform thoughtful code reviews.
• Collaborate with product, design, frontend, and backend teams to ship cohesive solutions.
• Mentor junior engineers and interns via pairing and design feedback.

Skills

Go

Java

C++

Python

REST APIs

Education

Bachelor's degree +5 years

Master's degree +3 years

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Job description

Cisco Systems, Inc. in Seattle is seeking a Backend Engineer to design, build, and operate customer-facing REST APIs and services in Go at scale. You will lead features end-to-end, own production systems, and mentor peers, while collaborating across product, design, and other backend teams.

The role emphasizes clean code, robust testing, and pragmatic architecture in a hybrid/remote team based in Seattle (PST).