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Senior Software Engineer, Cisco Intersight

Milpitas, California, USFull-time$168k2026-10-16 → 2026-11-10

Core

Design and deliver cloud-native software, APIs, and distributed services for Cisco's AI Infrastructure strategy, supporting both cloud and on-premises environments.

Role type

Senior Software Engineer (Backend/Distributed Systems)

Builds

Secure, scalable backend services, APIs, and AI-enabled capabilities for the Intersight cloud platform.

Domain

Cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, AI/ML

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

Go, C/C++, Java, Python, cloud-native microservices, distributed systems, data structures, algorithms, API design, system architecture, security, scalability, reliability, mentoring

Preferred skills

AWS Cloud, enterprise management platforms for compute/AI, MongoDB (data modeling, indexing, sharding, performance analysis)

Technologies

Go, C/C++, Java, Python, AWS, MongoDB, MCP, LLMs, RAG

Responsibilities

Design, build, test, and maintain secure backend services; lead medium-sized features from design to production; diagnose complex production issues and lead root-cause analyses; partner with product and UX teams; develop AI-enabled and agentic capabilities; review code and technical designs; coordinate cross-team dependencies; mentor peers and junior engineers; contribute to threat modeling and secure coding practices; improve engineering processes and automation.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with mentorship responsibilities