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Partners with other teams including design and product management to create the right solution for the customers. Creates technical design documentation to be used by the team as well as contributing to user documentation to be used by end users. Debugs and addresses software issues during development and in production systems to support customers. Brings new ideas for product innovation and helps improve software development processes.\nYour Impact\nAdvanced experienced professional using best practices and knowledge of internal or external business issues to improve products or services.\nWorks independently but receives minimal guidance and direction from leader then determines best approach to accomplish work.\nActs as a resource for colleagues with less experience.\nUnderstands project and/or department needs and establishes relationships with appropriate cross-functional stakeholders to gather input, collect information and complete work steps.\nMay lead projects from end-to-end through delegation, review, and driving results holistically.\nMay lead medium features from technical design through completion.\nMay contribute to a defined software engineering roadmap.\nIdentifies and recommends improvements to the software development lifecycle and best practices in agile engineering.\nLeads delivery of high-quality design of features and deliverables.\nIdentifies opportunities for multiple products to work together to create value for customers.\nIntegrates product sense as it relates to design of the product (market awareness, production adoption, competition) and tracks related metrics.\nWrites functional clean code and unit tests with no guidance.\nMaintains and enhances solutions by fixing complicated errors, raising risks, and escalating issues where necessary.\nIdentifies immediate and larger scope problems through thorough code reviews.\nTests and reviews code to optimize scale, velocity, and reliability of deliverables.\nContributes to threat modeling of a feature.\nMonitors the production environment and works cross-functionally to identify problems and track production systems.\nMay serve as escalation point for on-call issues.\nLeads postmortem and writes root cause analysis.\nExpert on multiple functional components.\nShares knowledge across teams, both informally and formally (e.g., ad-hoc basis, internal presentations, blogs, newsletters).\nCoordinates across teams to estimate times and complete projects according to specification and user requirements.\nTracks milestones, progress and provides ongoing updates and remediation plans to cross-functional partners.\nMentors peers or more junior team members.\nAssists other engineers through code reviews, documentation, and technical guidance. Minimum Qualifications\nBachelors + 7 years of related experience OR Masters + 4 years of related experience OR PhD + 1 year of related experience.\nRequires solid conceptual and practical knowledge in primary technical job family and knowledge of related technical job families; has worked with a range of technologies. Preferred Qualifications\nVaries based on the team and business needs | Preferred Qualifications are desired education, experience, and skills that are in addition to Minimum Qualifications.\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.\nDisclaimer\nTo ensure that we hire the best talent in the right way, we follow a strict hiring process and recently, Cisco has been made aware of fraudulent recruiters claiming to be from the company. Please be advised that any communication from Cisco about careers will:\nbe in direct response to an application you have submitted through the company career site\nbegin with screening or an interview\noriginate from a Cisco email address, and\nbe conducted across email, phone, or WebEx\nCisco will never make a job offer without conducting an interview process or ask you for money in any way. If you have been requested to apply for a role or have received an offer from a site other than https://careers.cisco.com or cisco.wd5.myworkday.com, do not provide any personal identifying information, including your Aadhaar or other personal identifying number, birth certificate, banking information, driver's license, or passport.\nIf you are the target of a recruiting scam, consider filing a report with your local law enforcement authorities. 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