Software Engineer

You will partner with Engineering, Quality, Security, Release Management, and Infrastructure leaders to identify delivery constraints and translate them into durable platform capabilities. Your work will establish common engineering practices, reduce operational friction, and enable teams to deliver software faster and more safely while maintaining appropriate security , compliance, and reliability controls.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable CI/CD pipelines for application and infrastructure delivery.

• Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration using Terraform and reusable infrastructure modules.

• Develop standardized deployment workflows supporting build, test, security scanning, artifact management, promotion, and rollback.

• Build and maintain Kubernetes deployment platforms, including workload configuration, resource management, autoscaling, and cluster operations.

• Implement GitOps -based deployment and configuration-management workflows using Argo CD.

• Create reusable pipeline templates, Terraform modules, and platform services that enable development teams to deliver software independently.

• Integrate automated unit , integration, regression, and infrastructure tests into CI/CD pipelines.

• Implement security controls across the software supply chain, including secrets management, dependency scanning, container scanning, policy enforcement, and image hardening.

• Develop automation and internal developer tools using Go, Python, and shell scripting.

• Improve pipeline reliability, execution time, deployment frequency, change-failure rate, and mean time to recovery .

• Establish observability for pipelines, deployments, Kubernetes workloads, and cloud infrastructure using metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, and alerts.

• Diagnose and resolve failures across CI/CD systems, cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes clusters, and application deployments.

• Optimize cloud resource utilization and infrastructure costs through capacity analysis, Kubernetes rightsizing, and automated governance.

• Partner with application, security, QA, and platform engineering teams to improve developer experience and operational readiness.

• Participate in production support and on-call activities, including incident response, root-cause analysis, and corrective-action tracking.

• Create technical documentation, architectural standards, operational runbooks, and platform onboarding guides.

• Bachelor's + 5   years of relevant experience, or Master’s degree + 3 years of relevant experience, or PhD + 0  years of relevant experience. Degree should be in Engineering, Computer Science or related technical field.

• Experience using SQL

• E xperience designing and operating CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar platforms.

• P roficiency with Terraform, including reusable modules, remote state, provider management, and environment promotion strategies.

• Experience operating Kubernetes-based applications in production.

• Knowledge of Docker, container registries, image lifecycle management, and container security.

• Familiarity with Kubernetes, distributed systems, SaaS products, or cloud-native architectures.

• Experience in cybersecurity, security analytics, or enterprise security products.

• Experience using AI-assisted development tools to improve coding, data analysis, automation, testing, or documentation workflows.

• Familiarity with applying machine learning, generative AI, or large language models to analyze data, identify patterns, summarize findings, or generate actionable insights.

• Experience evaluating AI-generated results for accuracy, reliability, security, and responsible uses.

• Experience in Go or Python

• Understanding branching strategies, release management, semantic versioning, artifact promotion, and automated rollback.

The starting salary range posted for this position is $155,000.00 to $222,600.00 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.

U.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.

U.S. employees are eligible for paid time away as described below, subject to Cisco’s policies:

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

• 1 paid day off for employee’s birthday, paid year-end holiday shutdown, and 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 rate of 4.92 hours per pay period for full-time employees

• Exempt 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)

• 80 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

• 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 also eligible to earn annual bonuses subject to Cisco’s policies.

Employees 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. For quota-based incentive pay, Cisco typically pays as follows:

• .75% of incentive target for each 1% of revenue attainment up to 50% of quota;

• 1.5% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 50% and 75%;

• 1% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 75% and 100%; and

• Once performance exceeds 100% attainment, incentive rates are at or above 1% for each 1% of attainment with no cap on incentive compensation.

For non-quota-based sales performance elements such as strategic sales objectives, Cisco may pay 0% up to 125% of target. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid.

The applicable full salary ranges for this position, by specific state, are listed below:

New York City Metro Area: $155,000.00 - $256,000.00 Non-Metro New York state & Washington state: $138,100.00 - $227,900.00

• For quota-based sales roles on Cisco’s sales plan, the ranges provided in this posting include base pay and sales target incentive compensation combined.

** Employees in Illinois, whether exempt or non-exempt, will participate in a unique time off program to meet local requirements.