[Remote] Software Engineer, Structured Storage

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Cisco is a leading technology company that focuses on revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations. The Software Engineer, Structured Storage will be responsible for designing and implementing data-storage infrastructure and services, coordinating delivery across teams, and contributing to the team's defined roadmap.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, test, and operate well-scoped projects and small-to-medium features within the team's defined structured-storage roadmap
• Develop versioned APIs and service components for graph, key-value, and related structured-storage services, covering authentication, routing, placement, policy, caching, and database lifecycle operations; contribute actively to design and code reviews
• Own delivery from source to production by using CI/CD, secure container images, Kubernetes configuration, database migrations, rollout validation, and rollback plans
• Improve reliability, scalability, security, performance, and cost efficiency using metrics, traces, logs, profiles, load tests, and customer or product-success signals
• Troubleshoot complex production issues, periodically participate in the team's on-call rotation, and when appropriate lead postmortems, root-cause analysis, and corrective actions
• Coordinate project specifications and timelines, keep stakeholders informed, surface risks early, and develop practical remediation options when delivery changes
• Share knowledge through documentation, reviews, and technical discussions; mentor peers or interns and help strengthen engineering practices across the team

Skills

• Bachelor's degree and 5+ years of related experience OR master's degree and 3+ years of related experience OR PhD
• 3 years experience developing production backend services and versioned APIs in Go, C++, or another systems programming language
• 3 years experience with at least one production graph, relational, or NoSQL database, including data modeling, queries, schema or data migrations, transactions, or performance tuning
• 3 years experience deploying containerized services through CI/CD to Kubernetes or a comparable orchestration platform
• 3 years experience diagnosing production issues with logs, metrics, or traces and participating in on-call or incident response
• Experience building or operating distributed services in production, including failure handling, scalability, or recovery
• Neo4j and Cypher experience, including graph modeling, clustering, topology, Bolt or Query API usage, database provisioning, page cache, and transaction metrics
• PostgreSQL, Amazon Aurora, or RDS experience involving connection security, IAM authentication, migrations, tuning, backup, and restore
• Experience with Helm, Kubernetes controllers or Operators, GitLab CI/CD, Terraform, Puppet, or similar delivery and configuration tooling
• Experience operating services across one or more public clouds and on-premises environments, including service mesh, network policy, workload identity, or Vault integrations
• Knowledge of database internals, storage engines, query planning, indexes, transaction logs, concurrency control, or large-scale performance testing

Benefits

• 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.
• 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 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

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