Software Engineer, Backend – Webex Signaling

Cisco is hiring a Software Engineer for the Webex Signaling team, which builds and operates microservices supporting Webex experiences. The role focuses on developing reliable cloud-native services, enhancing telemetry, and contributing to technical design, implementation, and engineering quality.

Responsibilities

Build and contribute to technical designs and implementation in a development team that practices continuous integration and continuous delivery

Develop cloud-native microservices deployed on Kubernetes and similar platforms

Make DevOps a primary concern by ensuring services are reliable, scalable, secure, manageable, and supportable

Enhance Webex telemetry systems to enable analytics, observability, and continuous improvement

Use Cisco-approved AI-assisted software engineering tools and agents, such as Codex, Claude, or similar technologies, throughout the software development lifecycle—from requirements analysis and design through implementation, testing, code review, documentation, deployment, monitoring, and incident response

Apply human judgment when using AI-generated content by validating code, designs, tests, documentation, and recommendations for correctness, security, privacy, performance, maintainability, and licensing or intellectual-property considerations

Serve as a gatekeeper for high-quality code, designs, architecture, and practical approaches to scale

Create alignment across product teams, architectural decisions, and implementation

Contribute to a culture of technical excellence, collaboration, and continuous learning

Preferred

Experience with REST APIs, API design patterns, JSON, containerized systems, and scalable microservices

Experience designing or operating telemetry, monitoring, and analytics systems

Experience with Kubernetes, cloud platforms, CI/CD pipelines, and production observability

Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases at scale

REST APIs

API Design Patterns

JSON

Containerized Systems

Scalable Microservices

Telemetry Systems

Monitoring Systems

Analytics Systems

Kubernetes

Cloud Platforms

CI/CD Pipelines

Production Observability

SQL Databases

NoSQL Databases

Database Scaling

Benefits

Hybrid work arrangement

U.S. employees, subject to Cisco’s plan eligibility rules: medical, dental and vision insurance

A 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution

Paid parental leave

Short- and long-term disability coverage

Basic life insurance

Employees may be eligible to receive grants of Cisco restricted stock units, which vest following continued employment with Cisco for defined periods of time

10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees

1 paid day off for the employee’s birthday

Paid year-end holiday shutdown

4 paid days off for personal wellness determined by Cisco

Non-exempt employees receive 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year, accrued at a rate of 4.92 hours per pay period for full-time employees

Exempt employees participate in Cisco’s flexible vacation time off program, with no defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use, subject to availability and some business limitations

80 hours of sick time off provided on the hire date and each January 1 thereafter, and up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward from one calendar year to the next

Additional paid time away may be requested to deal with critical or emergency issues for family members

Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer

For non-sales roles, employees are eligible to earn annual bonuses subject to Cisco’s policies

Company

Networking and security solutions for organizations

San Jose, California, USA

http://www.cisco.com/

Founded in 1984

10001+ employees

Qualifications

Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience

Production software development experience with Java, Spring and Spring Boot

Experience participating in the software development lifecycle, including design, implementation, testing, deployment, and production support

Experience building large-scale distributed applications using technologies such as Cassandra, Kafka, and Redis

Experience in leveraging AI tools to increase productivity and efficiency

This position will perform work that the U.S. government has specified can only be performed by a U.S. citizen on U.S. soil

Experience with REST APIs, API design patterns, JSON, containerized systems, and scalable microservices

Experience designing or operating telemetry, monitoring, and analytics systems

Experience with Kubernetes, cloud platforms, CI/CD pipelines, and production observability

Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases at scale

Required skills

Java, Spring, Spring Boot, Distributed Applications, Cassandra, Kafka, Redis, REST APIs, API Design, JSON, Kubernetes, Microservices, CI/CD, SQL, NoSQL Databases, AI-Assisted Software Engineering

Preferred skills

Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases at scale

Experience

Mid level