Senior Software Engineer, Backend

The application window is expected to close on: 08/25/2026

Job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received.

The successful applicant may be performing work in FedRAMP High or IL-5 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 may also perform work that the U.S. government has specified can only be performed by a U.S. citizen on U.S. soil.

At Cisco Meraki, we know that technology can connect, empower, and drive us. Our mission is to simplify technology so our customers can focus onwhat'smost meaningful to them: their students, patients, customers, and businesses.

We’remaking networking easier, faster, and smarter with technology that simply works. In near real time, Cisco Meraki collects massive amounts of data from its devices all over the world. We writenearly 11million data points each second globally every day. With this data, we help to power Dashboard and allow ourcustomersinsight into the state of their networks.

Our devices are some of the most popular in the world: there are over 11 million devices online globally. This popularity comes with large scalability challenges: our backend handles more than 10billionof requests to our devices 24/7/365.

As a member of the Time Series Data team, you will develop, scale, andmaintainthe 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.

• 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 (Git Lab or Git Hub) 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.

• 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'.

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.