[Hiring] Software Engineer @Cisco

Role Description

The successful applicant will be performing work on US Government classified environments, and therefore, must be a U.S. Person (i.e., U.S. citizen, U.S. national, lawful permanent resident, asylee, or refugee). This position will perform work that the U.S. government has specified can only be performed by a U.S. citizen on U.S. soil. The successful applicant must have a current US Government TS/SCI with Full Scope Polygraph Clearance.

This role is remote, US, but there is a strong preference for locations except CA, WA, DC, MD, NJ, NY, CT, MA, VA, AK.

Join Cisco’s Splunk Integrated Core Platform team, where we build and maintain the critical authorization infrastructure powering Splunk’s enterprise observability and security platform.

As a Software Engineer on the Splunk Platform Authorization team, you’ll:

• Build and maintain backend services that power secure, reliable access across complex enterprise environments.
• Work with experienced engineers to implement technical solutions, solve challenging problems, and improve the performance and reliability of our core platform.
• Take ownership of meaningful engineering work while expanding your expertise in distributed systems and cloud-native technologies.

• Develop and maintain backend services using Go, supporting scalable authorization and service-to-service communication across Splunk’s platform.
• Translate technical designs into high-quality, maintainable code, independently driving implementation while collaborating through design discussions and code reviews.
• Investigate and resolve production issues, improve system performance and reliability, and address technical debt within complex backend systems.
• Contribute to the modernization of established C++ services and the evolution of distributed infrastructure, including Kubernetes-based environments.
• Collaborate with engineering teams, share technical knowledge, and participate in operational support and on-call rotations following onboarding.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field with 5+ years of relevant experience or equivalent experience; or a Master’s degree with 3+ years of equivalent experience; or a PhD in a related field or equivalent experience.
• Professional software development experience building and maintaining backend services using Go.
• Experience developing, troubleshooting, and maintaining backend applications or services in complex production environments.
• Experience developing and maintaining software code, participating in code reviews, and contributing to software development projects within an engineering team.

Requirements

• Experience developing or maintaining software in C++ or working with large, established codebases.
• Familiarity with distributed systems, microservices, Kubernetes, or cloud-native infrastructure.
• Understanding of authentication, authorization, identity and access management, or RBAC/ABAC concepts.
• Experience working with high-performance, high-availability services in large-scale enterprise or cloud environments.
• Experience diagnosing production issues, improving system reliability, or participating in on-call operations.

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.