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Our work empowers global enterprises to visualize, tackle, and optimize complex cloud-native architectures in real time, serving as a vital pillar in Cisco and Splunk’s unified Observability and Cloud Operations strategy! We champion a collaborative, highly technical, and encouraging culture where engineers thrive under leadership that actively champions mentorship and long-term career growth! What makes our team especially exciting is our forward-thinking integration with Splunk's powerful data ecosystem, alongside modern AI tooling, sub-agents, and automated developer workflows deeply embedded into our daily software delivery.\nYour impact\nAs a Full Stack Software Engineer, you will develop, build, and ship end-to-end features and bug fixes across our high-scale Java backend microservices and modern React frontend applications.\nParticipate in scheduled on-call rotations (~3 rotations/year) to proactively diagnose, solve, and resolve APM backend issues and customer escalations.\nDevelop and deploy robust, high-performance features across Java backend services and React user interfaces to provide flawless observability experiences for our customers.\nLeverage AI-assisted development practices, sub-agents, and automated workflows to increase code velocity, maintain token efficiency, and tackle technical challenges faster.\nPartner closely with Product Owners, Technical Owners, and UX designers to translate complex observability requirements into scalable, intuitive technical solutions.\nAuthor clear technical documentation, participate in constructive code reviews, and contribute innovative system design ideas to continuously elevate team standards.\nMinimum qualifications\nMeet one of the following (completed within the past 3 years or expected to be completed within the next 12 months):\n-A Bachelor's degree with 0 years of work experience; or\n-An educational or workforce development program (e.g., Associate’s, Apprenticeship, Boot camp, or Certification) with 1 year of work experience; or\n-High school diploma (or equivalent) with 2 years of work experience.\nQualifying education and work experience should be in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or a related technical discipline\nDemonstrated experience developing backend services and applications using Java (or Python / Go).\nHands-on experience building interactive web applications and user interfaces using React (or modern JavaScript/TypeScript frameworks).\nPreferred qualifications\nHands-on experience demonstrating modern AI-assisted development tools, Model Context Protocols (MCPs), or developer sub-agents to streamline software workflows and automation.\nPrior exposure to Splunk Observability Cloud, Application Performance Monitoring (APM), distributed tracing, cloud telemetry, or metrics platforms.\nPractical experience designing data stores (SQL and NoSQL), integrating RESTful or GraphQL APIs, and deploying containerized services in Kubernetes (K8s).\nFamiliarity with frontend visualization libraries (such as D3.js) and building complex, high-performance interactive dashboards.\nStrong analytical problem-solving and communication skills, with a track record of effective cross-functional collaboration across Product and UX teams, paired with a drive for full-stack career growth.\nWhy Cisco?\nAt 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.\nFueled 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.\nWe are Cisco, and our power starts with you.\nMessage to applicants applying to work in the U.S. and/or Canada:\nThe starting salary range posted for this position is $84,600.00 to $113,600.00 and reflects the projected salary range for new hires in this position in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including incentive compensation*, equity, or benefits.Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location, market conditions, job-related skillset, experience, qualifications, education, certifications, and/or training. The full salary range for certain locations is listed below. For locations not listed below, the recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.\nU.S. employees are offered benefits, subject to Cisco’s plan eligibility rules, which include medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, paid parental leave, short and long-term disability coverage, and basic life insurance. Please see the Cisco careers site to discover more benefits and perks. Employees may be eligible to receive grants of Cisco restricted stock units, which vest following continued employment with Cisco for defined periods of time.\nU.S. employees are eligible for paid time away as described below, subject to Cisco’s policies:\n10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees\n\n1 paid day off for employee’s birthday, paid year-end holiday shutdown, and 4 paid days off for personal wellness determined by Cisco\n\nNon-exempt employees** receive 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year, accrued at rate of 4.92 hours per pay period for full-time employees\n\nExempt employees participate in Cisco’s flexible vacation time off program, which has no defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use (subject to availability and some business limitations)\n\n80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter, and up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward from one calendar year to the next\n\nAdditional paid time away may be requested to deal with critical or emergency issues for family members\n\nOptional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer\n\nFor non-sales roles, employees are also eligible to earn annual bonuses subject to Cisco’s policies.\nEmployees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, which is split between quota and non-quota components, subject to the applicable Cisco plan. 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