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As a Senior Engineer, you will shape architectural decisions and build systems that scale across enterprise-grade data platforms.\nYour impact\nAs aSenior Software Engineer on the team, you will:\nEnd-to-End Feature Delivery: own development, and implementation of complex, high-impact features and microservices within the MetadataCatalogplatform.\n\nCollaborate on System Architecture: Partner with Technical Leaders and Architects to translate product requirements into modular, scalable, and resilient distributed components.\n\nBuild for Scale & High Performance: optimizerobust, low-latency applications capable of managing large-scale graph relationships and data lineage queries.\n\nDrive Quality & Engineering Excellence: Champion aDeveloper Owned Qualitymindset within the team by authoring comprehensive unit, integration, and performance tests to ensure high product reliability.\n\nOperational & Production Ownership: Take active ownership of services in production-monitoring service health, debugging complex distributed issues,participatingin on-call rotations, and driving post-incident reviews.\n\nTechnical Mentorship & Collaboration: Mentor junior and mid-level engineers through detailed code reviews and design discussions, fostering continuous learning and engineering rigor across the team.\n\nMinimum Qualifications\nEducation & experience: Bachelor'sin computer science /related field+ 6 years of related experience, or Masters + 3 years of related experience\n\nSoftware Development & Debugging: Strong hands-onproficiencyin an object-oriented or systems language (such asGo, Java, or C++), with proven experience designing, developing, and debugging production-grade services.\n\nCloud & Container Technologies: Demonstratedexperience building and operating cloud-native microservices using AWS, Azure, or GCP, alongside containerization and orchestration tools (Docker, Kubernetes).\n\nDistributed Systems Foundations: Solid grasp of algorithms, data structures, concurrency, distributed systems architecture, and RESTful /gRPCAPI design.\n\nCI/CD & Agile Rigor: Proven background delivering software in fast-paced Agile environments with automated testing and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines.\n\nReliability & Performance Focus: Track record of diagnosing and solving performance bottlenecks and ensuring high availability in distributed environments.\n\nPreferred Qualifications\nGraph Databases & Technologies: Hands-on experience with graph databases (e.g., Neo4j, AWS Neptune, Apache AGE) and query languages/frameworks (e.g.,Cypher, Gremlin,GraphQL).\n\nData Lineage & Metadata: Experience with metadatacatalogs, data governance frameworks, schema registries, or knowledge graph platforms.\n\nE vent Streaming: Familiarity with distributed message brokers and streaming platforms (e.g.,Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ).\n\nObservability: Experience instrumenting services with observability metrics, distributed tracing, and logging frameworks (e.g.,OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Splunk).\n\nCollaboration & Adaptability: Strong communicationskills with a demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively across distributed global engineering teams in an evolving technical landscape.\n\nWhy Cisco?\nAt Cisco, we’re revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era - and beyond. 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