Senior Back-end Software Engineer, Remote in the U.S.

Applications are accepted until further notice

Cisco's Security camera team is a growing, fast-moving team building security cameras with a unique edge-storage architecture and AI-powered features, disrupting an industry where innovation is rare. The security cameras blend the elegance and ease of use of high-end consumer systems with the immense scalability, security, and power of enterprise-grade solutions.
Our Culture

Through our intuitive platform, we empower organizations of all sizes to deliver exceptional customer and employee experiences-it's like magic. Our commitment to ground breaking technology is driven by a collaborative, flexible, and inclusive culture. This environment grants our employees the autonomy to develop secure and accessible technology. We connect passionate people to their missions by simplifying the digital workplace.

As a Senior Back-end Engineer, you will help us build scalable services that always 'just work', reinforcing Cisco's reputation as the best partner for enterprise customers that demand reliability. Consider the facility manager monitoring live video to keep their campus safe, the security guard investigating a historical incident, or the marketing manager reconfiguring their store layout based on foot traffic analysis; you'll step into the shoes of each customer and ensure that the features they depend on are reliable and available.
What you will do:

• Contribute to our core backend services that support cloud video streaming, asynchronous video exports, and archiving of video to cloud storage.
• Use your experience to design and implement cloud-native solutions and services with a focus on scale and high availability.
• Demonstrate end-to-end ownership of the software you build, applying software engineering excellence to deliver well-tested and maintainable software, with observability and 24x7 production monitoring of critical systems.
• Join an agile, highly collaborative team in which you will work closely with Product Managers, your peers, and other engineering teams on requirements gathering, implementation details, and planning. May be required to participate in an on-call rotation.
• Join your team members to create technical roadmaps that align and guide efforts across multi-functional teams.

You're an ideal candidate if you have:

• 5+ years of experience developing enterprise-class backend applications and services, with a proven track record of building systems that scale.
• Expert experience with Go, strong with a scripting language like Ruby, and also confident in learning and adapting to whatever new technologies are required.
• Practical experience using AWS (or equivalent) cloud services and developed infrastructure-as-code using Terraform.
• A solid understanding of distributed systems, microservices architecture, container technologies, and container orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes).
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, Agile methodologies, Observability (Prometheus, Grafana, Cloud Watch, ELK), and other standard processes for modern application development.

Bonus Points For:

• Knowledge of camera and video technologies such as RTSP, HLS, WebRTC, and Web Sockets.
• Experience using a variety of AWS solutions, including Lambda functions, SQS, DynamoDB, or their equivalents on other cloud service providers.
• Familiarity with video analytics and performance monitoring tools.
• Experience with any of C/C++, Ruby on Rails, or Scala.
• Experience designing, implementing, or maintaining high-availability authorization and authentication services.

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. Simply put - we power the future.

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.

At Cisco Meraki, we're challenging the status quo with the power of diversity, inclusion, and collaboration. When we connect different perspectives, we can imagine new possibilities, inspire innovation, and release the full potential of our people. We're building an employee experience that includes appreciation, belonging, growth, and purpose for everyone.

Cisco is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, genetic information, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected basis. Cisco will consider for employment, on a case by case basis, qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Compensation Range:

$131,000-$240,000 USD

Message to applicants applying to work in the U.S. and/or Canada:
When available, the salary range posted for this position reflects the projected hiring range for new hire, full-time salaries in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including equity or benefits. For non-sales roles the hiring ranges reflect base salary only; employees are also eligible to receive annual bonuses. Hiring ranges for sales positions include base and incentive compensation target. Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location and additional factors, including but not limited to skillset, experience, and relevant education, certifications, or training. Applicants may not be eligible for the full salary range based on their U.S. or Canada hiring location. The recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.

U.S. employees have access to quality medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, short and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance and numerous wellbeing offerings.

Employees receive up to twelve paid holidays per calendar year, which includes one floating holiday (for non-exempt employees), plus a day off for their birthday. Non-Exempt new hires accrue up to 16 days of vacation time off each year, at a rate of 4.92 hours per pay period. Exempt new hires participate in Cisco's flexible Vacation Time Off policy, which does not place a defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use, but is subject to availability and some business limitations. All new hires are eligible for Sick Time Off subject to Cisco's Sick Time Off Policy and will have eighty (80) hours of sick time off provided on their hire date and on January 1st of each year thereafter. Up to 80 hours of unused sick time will be carried forward from one calendar year to the next such that the maximum number of sick time hours an employee may have available is 160 hours. Employees in Illinois have a unique time off program designed specifically with local requirements in mind. All employees also have access to paid time away to deal with critical or emergency issues. We offer additional paid time to volunteer and give back to the community.

Employees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, which is split between quota and non-quota components. 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 up to 125% of target. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid.