Software Engineer, Backend

Meet the Team

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, and maintain scalable, distributed, enterprise software solutions that support the services which record and consume telemetry data.
• Build and maintain backend 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.

Minimum Qualifications

• 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: Experience utilizing automated 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 as OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana.
• Experience with feature flagging tools such as Launch Darkly.
• Experience maintaining database software.
• Experience or willingness to working in an agile environment (Scrum, Kanban, etc.).
• Able to comment on the difference between 'prompt engineering', 'context engineering', and 'agentic engineering'.

Why Cisco?

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.