Staff Software Engineer, Cloud & Distributed Systems

Cisco Systems, Inc; Rancho Cordova (CA); On-site; USD 152,000 - 222,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonuses

Paid time off

Volunteer days

RSU grants

Job summary

Cisco is seeking a senior software engineer to own features end-to-end across the full software development lifecycle, including AI components, in our cloud ecosystem. You will translate customer needs into scalable technical solutions and collaborate with product managers, SREs, and cross-functional teams to deliver meaningful outcomes.

The role emphasizes distributed systems, large-scale data processing, and strong debugging and observability capabilities in a global, multi-cloud environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience in computer science, engineering or related field.
• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience and proficiency in Go, Python, or Java.
• 5+ years designing and implementing distributed systems including databases, distributed file systems, concurrency models, and API communication (REST).

Responsibilities

• Own features end-to-end across the software development lifecycle including AI, from requirements to design, implementation, testing, automation, deployment and production ownership.
• Translate customer and business needs into technical solutions with thoughtful trade-offs for speed, quality and reliability.
• Design, build and maintain highly scalable distributed systems handling large data volumes.

Skills

Go

Python

Java

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

CI/CD pipelines

Kubernetes

Cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure)

Observability tools

LLMs / RAG pipelines

Multi-agent frameworks

Job description

Cisco is seeking a senior software engineer to own features end-to-end across the full software development lifecycle, including AI components, in our cloud ecosystem. You will translate customer needs into scalable technical solutions and collaborate with product managers, SREs, and cross-functional teams to deliver meaningful outcomes.

The role emphasizes distributed systems, large-scale data processing, and strong debugging and observability capabilities in a global, multi-cloud environment.