Software Engineer, Smart Cameras

The application window is expected to close on: 10/27/2026. 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 services and infrastructure that drive reliable video streaming, video exports, and cloud storage for global retail partners, ranging from gas stations to large-scale fitness chains. 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 mission-critical physical security operations, ensuring 24/7 system availability.

• 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.

• 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, Type Script, 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.

• Full-stack development experience, specifically with React and modern JavaScript/Type Script 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).

At Cisco, we’re revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era – and beyond. We’ve been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint. Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions.

Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you’ll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere. We are Cisco, and our power starts with you.

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