Software Engineer
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Nov 3, 2026. First seen by Alion on Sep 16, 2026. Cisco Systems scores B on the Alion truth index.
About the Team
Cisco's Webex Engineering Group is redefining the future of collaboration. We're building a world where people connect effortlessly to enjoy modern, uncompromised collaboration across every room, desk, pocket, and application.
Our technology powers industry-leading products like Slido, Webex Meetings, Webex Calling, and Webex Contact Center. As a member of our team, your work will ensure every user gets a truly immersive experience regardless of device or location, empowering the hybrid working patterns of the future.
Your Impact
As a Software Engineer, you will contribute to the design, implementation, and maintenance of software features within our microservices architecture. You will work closely with senior engineers to build robust, scalable solutions, gaining hands-on experience with our production tech stack. Your work will directly impact the efficiency of our global partner network, helping to reduce operational friction and improve the partner experience.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and maintain software features and product improvements for backend services with guidance from senior team members.
- Contribute to distributed, highly available microservice architectures.
- Participate in the full software development lifecycle, including design discussions, code reviews, and testing.
- Improve system performance, reliability, and observability by identifying and resolving technical issues.
- Leverage AI coding tools (e.g., Copilot, Cursor) to accelerate your productivity and learning.
- Collaborate closely with engineers, product management, and SRE/DevOps teams.
- Participate in incident resolution and learn from production issues through postmortems.
- Commit to continuous learning, code quality, and operational excellence.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
- 3+ years of professional software engineering experience (or equivalent internship/project experience).
- Foundational knowledge of backend development and production environments.
- Solid understanding of software development and architecture concepts with a willingness to learn new technologies quickly.
Preferred Qualifications
- Familiarity with Java, Node.js, JavaScript, or Python.
- Exposure to web application frameworks and persistence technologies such as Spring, PostgreSQL, MySQL, or Kafka.
- Familiarity with Git, DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, and continuous delivery.
- Familiarity with AI coding tools (e.g., Codex, Cursor, Copilot).
- Eagerness to learn how to debug and resolve production issues.
- Ability to apply creative skills to complex problems.
- Flexible, thrives in diverse team environments, and communicates clearly and precisely.
- Strong attention to detail and a commitment to continuous learning and quality results.
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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.