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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Software Engineer, Backend - **Company:** Cisco Systems, Inc. - **Location:** Durham, NC, United States - **Salary:** $152,500.0 - $219,200.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** C++ (Programming Language), Computer Programming, Databases, Continuous Integration, Relational Databases, Software Debugging, Linux, Distributed Systems, Github, Python (Programming Language), PostgreSQL, MySQL, Scrum Methodology, Prometheus, Software Deployment, Software Engineering, SQL Databases, Datadog, Enterprise Software Applications, System Availability, Large Language Models, Grafana, Prompt Engineering, Backend, Gitlab, Containerization, Data Lakes, Core Data, Kubernetes, Data Management, Data Pipelines, Cisco - **Published:** July 7, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/00000000gehqjz ## About the Role + **Distributed Systems:** Experience analyzing, scaling, troubleshooting, and debugging distributed systems. + **C++ Development:** Experience developing software using C++11 or newer standards. + **CI/CD & Containerization:** Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines (GitLab or GitHub) and deploying applications using containerization and Kubernetes. + **Database Management:** Experience designing and querying relational databases using SQL (PostgreSQL or MySQL). + **Development Lifecycle:** Experienceutilizingautomated testing frameworks and LLM-based coding assistants within the software development lifecycle. Preferred Qualifications + Programming experience in Rust, Scala, Python. + Experience with observability tooling such asOpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana. + Experience with feature flagging tools such as Launch Darkly. + Experiencemaintainingdatabase software. + Experience or willingness toworkingin an agile environment (Scrum, Kanban, etc.). + Able to comment on the difference between 'prompt engineering', 'context engineering', and 'agentic engineering'. ## Description The Time Series Data (TSD) team builds and operates the time-series database and supporting software components that store and serve the telemetry behind Cisco Meraki's Dashboard. Our infrastructure ingests and serves millions of data points per second from a fleet holding petabytes of telemetry-data that powers the network insights customers see in Dashboard and feeds product teams, monitoring, analytics, and data lakes across Cisco. We're a small, expert team that owns this software end to end, holds itself to a high bar, and takes an observability-driven approach to high-impact work in areas like reliability, high availability, business continuity, performance, and scalability. This role suits someone who wants to go deep on core data infrastructure in C++, take on real responsibility, and learn from the engineers around them. Your Impact As a member of the Time Series Data team, you will develop, scale, and maintain the platforms and services which sustain several Cisco services and data platforms, including the flagship Meraki Dashboard product. You will work with many different people within Engineering and throughout Cisco to help build the infrastructure and data pipelines to power their data-driven decisions. In this role you can expect to: + Design, build, ship, analyze, andmaintainscalable, distributed, enterprise software solutions that support the services which record and consume telemetry data. + Build andmaintainbackend 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. ## Related Videos - [How Cisco embraced a DevOps culture within its network engineering team](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/99-how-cisco-embraced-a-devops-culture-within-its-network-engineering-team) - [Navigating the Corporate Jungle: Life as a Developer in a large Company](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/621-navigating-the-corporate-jungle-life-as-a-developer-in-a-large-company) - [Docker network without Docker](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1418-docker-network-without-docker) - [MySQL Protocol Features You Should Be Aware Of](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100267-mysql-protocol-features-you-should-be-aware-of) - [Computer Vision from the Edge to the Cloud done easy](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/263-computer-vision-from-the-edge-to-the-cloud-done-easy) - [Docker exec without Docker](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1094-docker-exec-without-docker) ## Related Articles - [Highest Paying Tech Companies for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/220-highest-paying-tech-companies-for-developers) - [The Best Software Developer Blogs to Read](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/156-the-best-software-developer-blogs-to-read) - [Résumé-Driven Development: How IT trends affect the job market for software developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/59-resume-driven-development-how-it-trends-affect-the-job-market-for-software-developers) - [Is Software Engineering Over-Saturated?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/418-is-software-engineering-over-saturated) - [Dev Digest 120 - Apple and peers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/455-dev-digest-120-apple-and-peers) - [Is Software Engineering Hard?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/448-is-software-engineering-hard)