[Hiring] Software Engineer @Cisco

Role Description

This position is eligible for Remote within the US.

Cisco’s Smart Camera team is transforming enterprise security by merging edge-storage architecture with sophisticated AI-powered analytics. This is the team that designs and maintains the cloud infrastructure that drives reliable video streaming and storage for global retail partners, ranging from gas stations to large-scale fitness chains. These Engineering efforts will deliver critical foot-traffic insights while ensuring 24/7 system availability for our clients' mission-critical operations. As a member of this team, you will play a primary role in scaling these services and shaping the technical strategy that empowers our customers to optimize their physical environments.

• Architect & Scale: Build and maintain robust services for cloud video streaming, exports, and cloud video storage.
• API & Backend Design: Design and implement high-performance APIs and backend services integrated into the Meraki Dashboard.
• Cloud-Native Engineering: Develop scalable solutions on AWS with a rigorous focus on high availability, fault tolerance, and system performance.
• Full-Stack Agility: While your primary focus is backend engineering, you will demonstrate the versatility to contribute across the full stack, including UI components and firmware interactions as needed.
• End-to-End Ownership: Own your services from design through deployment, including comprehensive testing, instrumentation, and production observability.
• Leadership & Incident Management: Drive the resolution of complex production issues, lead post-mortems, and author root-cause analyses to improve system resilience.
• Strategic Collaboration: Partner with Product Managers and partner teams to define requirements, architecture, and long-term project roadmaps.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science (or equivalent) with 3+ years of relevant experience, or a Master’s degree with 2+ years of experience.
• Experience in production Go, TypeScript, or an equivalent statically-typed programming language; and in a scripting language like Ruby (preferred) or Python.
• Experience in backend software including REST-ful API design and relational databases.
• Experience with distributed systems, microservices architecture, and container orchestration (Kubernetes).
• Experience applying AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Copilot, Cursor, Claude) to accelerate velocity and code quality.

Requirements

• Full-stack development experience, specifically with React and modern JavaScript/TypeScript ecosystems.
• Demonstrated experience with CI/CD pipelines and modern observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK).
• Domain expertise in video streaming protocols (RTSP, HLS, WebRTC).
• Advanced experience with AWS services (Lambda, SQS, DynamoDB) and Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform).

Benefits

• Medical, dental and vision insurance.
• 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution.
• Paid parental leave.
• Short and long-term disability coverage.
• Basic life insurance.
• 10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees.
• 1 paid day off for employee’s birthday, paid year-end holiday shutdown, and 4 paid days off for personal wellness determined by Cisco.
• Non-exempt employees receive 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year.
• Exempt employees participate in Cisco’s flexible vacation time off program.
• 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter.
• Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer.