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# Senior Software Engineer, Cisco Intersight

- **Company:** Cisco Systems, Inc.
- **Location:** San Jose, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $167,700.0 - $245,200.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Clean Code Principles, Java (Programming Language), Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, C++ (Programming Language), Cloud Engineering, Code Review, Data Structures, Shard (Database Architecture), Distributed Systems, Python (Programming Language), MongoDB, Software Architecture, Query Optimization, Systems Integration, AI Infrastructure, Cloud Platform System, Retrieval-Augmented Generation, Large Language Models, Reliability of Systems, Indexer, Backend, Integration Tests, Enterprise Integration, Api Design, Cisco, Golang, Microservices
- **Published:** October 18, 2026
- **Apply:** https://dejobs.org/x/x/8A3D57A4297D44B19143689611A1F9B7/job/

## About the Role

* Bachelors degree + 7 years of related experience, or Masters + 4 years of related experience, or PhD + 1 year of related experience, or equivalent related work experience
 * Significant experience designing and developing production software using one or more languages such as Go, C/C++, Java, or Python.
 * Experience designing, deploying, and operating cloud-native microservices and large-scale distributed systems on at least one major public-cloud platform.
 * Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, software architecture, and API design.
 * Demonstrated experience independently leading technically complex software features from design through production, including addressing scalability, performance, and reliability.

Preferred Qualifications:

 * AWS Cloud experience preferred.
 * Experience developing enterprise management platforms for compute or AI infrastructure.
 * Deep expertise designing and scaling MongoDB-backed systems, including data modeling, indexing, query optimization, replication, sharding, performance analysis, and production troubleshooting.

## Description

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Cisco Intersight team, you will design and deliver cloud-native software that supports Cisco's AI Infrastructure strategy. You will apply deep expertise in distributed systems, cloud platforms, and data-intensive backend services to build secure, scalable, and reliable solutions for cloud and on-premises environments.

You will independently lead features from technical design through production delivery while collaborating with product management, user experience, and other engineering teams. You will help shape architecture and technical direction, improve engineering practices, mentor other engineers, and drive innovations that advance the Intersight platform and create meaningful value for customers. You will:

 * Design, build, test, and maintain secure, scalable backend services for the Intersight cloud platform using clean, maintainable code and comprehensive unit and integration tests.
 * Independently lead medium-sized features from technical design through production, delivering APIs, distributed services, and platform integrations while documenting key architectural decisions and risks.
 * Diagnose complex production issues, participate in incident response, and lead root-cause analyses and corrective actions.
 * Partner with product management, user experience, and other engineering teams to deliver solutions that balance customer value, usability, performance, and operational impact.
 * Design and develop AI-enabled and agentic capabilities using technologies such as retrieval-augmented generation, large language models, and MCP-based integrations.
 * Review code and technical designs for correctness, security, scalability, reliability, and maintainability.
 * Coordinate cross-team dependencies, estimates, milestones, risks, and delivery plans while contributing to the engineering roadmap.
 * Mentor peers and junior engineers through technical guidance, design discussions, code reviews, documentation, and knowledge sharing.
 * Contribute to threat modeling and incorporate security, privacy, and secure coding practices throughout the development lifecycle.
 * Improve engineering processes, automation, testing, developer productivity, and system reliability.