Cisco Systems
Endpoint Security · Observability & APM

Cisco Systems tech stack

Cisco Systems builds mostly with Python, C++, Java, Go. Its stack also includes Kubernetes, AWS, PostgreSQL, React.js. Python is named in 1,121 of the 2,220 job postings Cisco Systems published in the last 12 months (50%). Counted by Alion from the job postings of Cisco Systems, updated Nov 10, 2026.

Source: Alion Coverage: the company's job postings of the last 12 months Nov 10, 2026
Technologies in use
638
Postings analysed
2,220
Open now
887
Modernity
75 /100
New in 6 months
8

What programming languages does Cisco Systems use?

Python is named in 50% of job postings at Cisco Systems, followed by C++ (17%), Java (12%), Go (10%).

Python 1121 50% required in 74% · 451 open now · since Nov 2025
C++ 376 17% required in 81% · 162 open now · since Dec 2025
Java 273 12% required in 78% · 98 open now · since Jan 2026
Go 211 10% required in 89% · 63 open now · since Mar 2026
JavaScript 193 9% required in 40% · 70 open now · since Jan 2026
SQL 169 8% required in 73% · 60 open now · since Apr 2026
TypeScript 128 6% required in 59% · 46 open now · since Jun 2026
Perl 125 6% required in 61% · 71 open now · since Nov 2025
Show all (34)
SystemVerilog105
Verilog87
Node JS62
Ruby51
Bash50
C#33
MATLAB31
Rust30
PowerShell22
Scala18
Kotlin17
VHDL16
LISP14
Objective-C14
C14
Swift13
Apex13
PHP6
Assembly4
Fortran2
Groovy2
Embedded C1
Erlang1
YARA1
Zig1
ABAP1

What frameworks and libraries does Cisco Systems use?

React.js is named in 4% of job postings at Cisco Systems, followed by Angular (3%), UVM (3%), OpenTelemetry (3%).

React.js 87 4% required in 63% · 28 open now · since Jul 2026
Angular 66 3% required in 65% · 26 open now · since Jun 2026
UVM 59 3% required in 75% · 37 open now · since Feb 2026
OpenTelemetry 57 3% required in 42% · 30 open now · since Jan 2026
LangChain 56 3% required in 36% · 20 open now · since Jun 2026
PyTorch 38 2% required in 84% · 15 open now · since Jun 2026
LangGraph 36 2% required in 50% · 15 open now · since Jun 2026
Pytest 34 2% required in 88% · 7 open now · since Jun 2026
Show all (116)
TensorFlow29
Flink27
Playwright26
Spring Boot26
Ruby on Rails25
Selenium24
Qt15
Robot Framework13
FastAPI13
Cypress12
Scikit-learn12
SwiftUI12
UIKit11
Vue.js10
Hadoop10
NCCL9
Jest9
Django8
AutoGen8
Flask8
Transformers8
CrewAI7
Pandas7
Redux6
CUDA6
LlamaIndex6
JUnit6
JAX5
Rest-Assured5
TensorFlow C++5
Espresso5
Jetpack Compose5

And 76 more, each named in fewer postings.

What databases does Cisco Systems use?

PostgreSQL is named in 4% of job postings at Cisco Systems, followed by Snowflake (3%), MySQL (2%), Redis (1%).

PostgreSQL 88 4% required in 64% · 33 open now · since Jul 2026
Snowflake 68 3% required in 69% · 24 open now · since Jun 2026
MySQL 41 2% required in 49% · 8 open now · since Jul 2026
Redis 32 1% required in 56% · 12 open now · since Jul 2026
ElasticSearch 29 1% required in 34% · 10 open now · since Jun 2026
Oracle 24 1% required in 79% · 10 open now · since Jul 2026
OpenSearch 19 1% required in 68% · 7 open now · since Jul 2026
Google BigQuery 17 1% required in 76% · 6 open now · since Jul 2026
Show all (32)
ClickHouse15
Pinecone13
Apache Iceberg11
Cassandra11
DynamoDB10
Presto10
SAP HANA9
Trino8
Neo4j8
Amazon Redshift7
MongoDB6
Weaviate6
Milvus6
Amazon Aurora5
SQLite4
Amazon Neptune4
InfluxDB4
Chroma3
Google Bigtable2
MS SQL2
Teradata2
Qdrant2
RocksDB1
ArangoDB1

What cloud and platforms does Cisco Systems use?

Kubernetes is named in 23% of job postings at Cisco Systems, followed by AWS (22%), Linux (18%), GCP (14%).

Kubernetes 511 23% required in 63% · 172 open now · since Jan 2026
AWS 497 22% required in 53% · 179 open now · since Mar 2026
Linux 395 18% required in 75% · 143 open now · since Dec 2025
GCP 317 14% required in 50% · 124 open now · since Mar 2026
Azure 314 14% required in 47% · 113 open now · since Mar 2026
Apache Kafka 108 5% required in 57% · 35 open now · since Jul 2026
SIEM 94 4% required in 65% · 42 open now · since Jul 2026
Grafana 92 4% required in 40% · 40 open now · since Jun 2026
Show all (122)
Unix84
Windows74
GitHub66
Tableau66
Power BI64
VMWare63
GitHub Actions57
Spark41
Amazon EKS29
Amazon S328
OpenShift26
GitLab CI26
OpenAI25
Figma23
GitLab23
RTOS21
.NET20
Datadog17
AWS Lambda16
Amazon CloudWatch15
LangSmith15
DLP14
RabbitMQ14
Synopsys HAPS14
SAP BusinessObjects13
Amazon ECS11
Hugging Face11
Databricks11
AppDynamics10
Windows Server10
vLLM10
Amazon Kinesis9

And 82 more, each named in fewer postings.

What developer tools does Cisco Systems use?

Docker is named in 11% of job postings at Cisco Systems, followed by Rest API (9%), Git (9%), Terraform (9%).

Docker 255 11% required in 62% · 76 open now · since Feb 2026
Rest API 194 9% required in 65% · 84 open now · since Apr 2026
Git 194 9% required in 56% · 75 open now · since Apr 2026
Terraform 193 9% required in 55% · 70 open now · since Mar 2026
Ansible 144 6% required in 53% · 58 open now · since Feb 2026
Copilot 140 6% required in 68% · 46 open now · since Apr 2026
Model Context Protocol 134 6% required in 55% · 57 open now · since Jun 2026
Jenkins 114 5% required in 44% · 35 open now · since Jun 2026
Show all (201)
Cursor93
Prometheus92
OpenAI Codex83
Microsoft Excel73
Cadence Allegro55
OpenStack41
Helm41
gRPC38
ArgoCD38
Synopsys PrimeTime37
Cilium34
Wireshark32
Formal Verification31
Claude Code29
Tessent28
GraphQL28
Siemens Veloce27
Synopsys TestMAX25
WebSockets25
A2A23
KVM23
Puppet22
CloudFormation22
Cadence Palladium20
Synopsys ZeBu19
HashiCorp Vault18
Cadence Virtuoso17
Ansys RedHawk14
Siemens Calibre14
HyperLynx14
JMeter14
Keysight ADS12

And 161 more, each named in fewer postings.

What AI and ML technologies does Cisco Systems use?

LLM is named in 9% of job postings at Cisco Systems, followed by Claude (4%), ChatGPT (1%), PEFT (<1%).

LLM 198 9% required in 65% · 83 open now · since Jun 2026
Claude 84 4% required in 68% · 25 open now · since Jun 2026
ChatGPT 12 1% required in 58% · 3 open now · since Jul 2026
PEFT 7 <1% required in 57% · 2 open now · since Aug 2026
LoRA 7 <1% required in 43% · 2 open now · since Aug 2026
Llama 4 <1% required in 75% · 1 open now · since Aug 2026
GPT-4 3 <1% required in 100% · since Aug 2026
QLoRA 3 <1% required in 67% · since Aug 2026
Show all (12)
BERT3
Code Llama1
StarCoder1
Whisper1

Which engineering practices does Cisco Systems ask for?

CI/CD is named in 23% of job postings at Cisco Systems, followed by AI Agents (15%), Machine Learning (9%), BGP (6%).

CI/CD 502 23% required in 67% · 187 open now · since Dec 2025
AI Agents 340 15% required in 79% · 137 open now · since Jun 2026
Machine Learning 199 9% required in 77% · 74 open now · since Jun 2026
BGP 137 6% required in 74% · 62 open now · since Jun 2026
TCP/IP 120 5% required in 71% · 43 open now · since Apr 2026
RAG 97 4% required in 59% · 43 open now · since Jul 2026
OSPF 83 4% required in 76% · 38 open now · since Jun 2026
Agentic Workflows 81 4% required in 75% · 29 open now · since Jul 2026
Show all (117)
DNS69
Platform Engineering66
MPLS59
Prompt Engineering57
AIOps53
LLM Guardrails52
VPN46
Incident Management44
GitOps44
Wi-Fi43
Fine-tuning43
Function Calling42
eBPF41
IAM39
Multi-Agent Systems34
Anomaly Detection32
DHCP31
Human-in-the-Loop25
Service Mesh23
SLI/SLO/SLA22
ETL/ELT21
Time Series20
Configuration Management20
Multimodal AI20
Embeddings19
HPC18
VLAN17
SOAP16
Layer 216
Reinforcement Learning16
Self-Healing15
FMEA13

And 77 more, each named in fewer postings.

What other technologies does Cisco Systems use?

Kotlin Coroutines is named in <1% of job postings at Cisco Systems, followed by Avalanche (<1%), Bitcoin (<1%), Swift Concurrency (<1%).

Kotlin Coroutines 5 <1% optional · 2 open now · since Jun 2026
Avalanche 1 <1% required in 100% · 1 open now · since Aug 2026
Bitcoin 1 <1% required in 100% · since Sep 2026
Swift Concurrency 1 <1% optional · 1 open now · since Aug 2026

What does each Cisco Systems team work with?

The technologies each team's postings require most often, with the number of postings that require them.

Backend

548 postings
Python314
C++187
Kubernetes147
Java136
Go130
Linux117

Hardware

357 postings
Python163
SystemVerilog83
C++78
Perl63
Linux55
Verilog48

Sales

207 postings
SIEM11
Microsoft Excel5
Cilium4
Cilium Tetragon2
Tableau2
VMWare2

Solutions

153 postings
SIEM19
Kubernetes14
AWS12
Azure11
GCP8
LLM6

Industrial Engineering

129 postings
Python33
Ansible12
Linux11
Kubernetes10
Docker9
Rest API9

DevOps

124 postings
Python81
Kubernetes80
AWS58
Linux48
Terraform48
Ansible36

See the open roles

How does your stack fit Cisco Systems?

Sign in to compare your skills with this stack and see which open roles fit you.
Sign In

How much does Cisco Systems pay by technology?

Median stated pay of the postings that name each technology, against the median of all Cisco Systems postings with stated pay: $268k across 1,020 postings.

TechnologyPostings with payMedianvs company median
Python474$256k−4%
AWS220$282k+5%
Kubernetes200$282k+5%
Linux162$245k−8%
C++153$245k−8%
GCP139$259k−3%
Azure137$257k−4%
LLM99$297k+11%
Java98$256k−4%
Go93$282k+5%

How is the Cisco Systems stack changing?

Read from the dates of the postings themselves: a technology is new when the first posting that names it appeared in the last six months, rising or falling when its share of postings moved between the last two quarters.

First appeared
AtlantisOct 2026
CosignOct 2026
SigstoreOct 2026
Cadence QuantusOct 2026
KLayoutOct 2026
Prisma CloudOct 2026
D3.jsOct 2026
QuarkusOct 2026
Rising
Machine Learning6% → 10%
Go7% → 10%
Agentic Workflows1% → 4%
Falling
SystemVerilog10% → 3%
Verilog8% → 3%
UVM6% → 2%
Perl8% → 5%
Unix6% → 3%
Grafana6% → 4%
Not named for 6 months
FortranApr 2026

How modern is the Cisco Systems stack?

Cutting-edge AI adopter 75/100

Cisco Systems scores 75 out of 100 (Cutting-edge). The score averages how current each technology in the stack is and adds weight for AI adoption. AI technologies in the stack: 12; legacy ones: 0.

How common is the Cisco Systems stack in its industry?

Share of the 688 companies in the same industries, whose stack Alion knows, that use each technology.

Python60%
Kubernetes43%
AWS41%
Linux55%
C++32%
GCP31%
Azure40%
Java30%
Go25%
LLM30%

What sets Cisco Systems apart

SystemVerilog3%
Verilog4%
UVM2%
Ruby on Rails2%

Cisco Systems products in its job postings

Postings at Cisco Systems name its own products. They describe what the company makes, so they are left out of the stack above.

Splunk535
Catalyst3

Questions about the Cisco Systems tech stack

What programming languages does Cisco Systems use?

The languages named in Cisco Systems job postings are Python (50%), C++ (17%), Java (12%), Go (10%), JavaScript (9%), as a share of the 2,220 postings of the last 12 months.

Does Cisco Systems use React.js?

Yes. React.js is named in 87 of 2,220 job postings (4%) and required in 55 of them.

What cloud and platforms does Cisco Systems use?

The cloud and platforms named in Cisco Systems job postings are Kubernetes (511), AWS (497), Linux (395) (postings in brackets).

What skills do you need for a Backend job at Cisco Systems?

Backend postings at Cisco Systems most often require Python (314), C++ (187), Kubernetes (147), Java (136), out of 548 postings in the last 12 months.

Is the Cisco Systems tech stack changing?

Yes. Atlantis, Cosign, Sigstore, Cadence Quantus first appeared in Cisco Systems job postings in the last six months.

How modern is the Cisco Systems tech stack?

Cisco Systems scores 75 out of 100 (Cutting-edge). The score averages how current each technology in the stack is and adds weight for AI adoption. AI technologies in the stack: 12; legacy ones: 0.

How does Alion know the Cisco Systems tech stack?

Alion reads every job posting Cisco Systems publishes and tags the technologies each one names. The figures on this page count the 2,220 postings of the last 12 months and were updated on Nov 10, 2026.

Method and citation

Alion reads every job posting the company publishes and tags the technologies each one names. Shares count the postings of the last 12 months, open and closed; the company's own products are counted apart. How we count

Alion, "Cisco Systems tech stack: 638 technologies from 2,220 job postings", as of Nov 10, 2026. https://alion.io/company/cisco-systems/technologies

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0JSON