Meet the Team

We are part of Cisco’s Product Go-to-Market organization, bringing product, engineering, and go-to-market expertise together to address customer needs and deliver measurable business outcomes. We focus on user experience, engineering excellence, and secure, resilient technology.

The Licensing On-Prem team supports Cisco’s shift toward software and subscription offerings. We build a robust platform for recurring revenue and subscription enablement, working with core component teams across Java, Python, and Go.

Your Impact

As a Software Engineering Technical Leader, you will design, build, and deliver platform and user-facing capabilities for Cisco’s Licensing On-Prem applications. You will remain hands-on while guiding major initiatives from concept through production and operation.

• Design and deliver backend and platform capabilities that improve reliability, scalability, security, operational efficiency, and developer experience.
• Architect and implement services, microservices, APIs, and platform components for enterprise and on-premises environments.
• Contribute to design, development, code reviews, debugging, testing, and production issue resolution using either Java or Go, together with Python.
• Use AI-assisted tools where appropriate to improve engineering efficiency, software quality, troubleshooting, and delivery.
• Lead technical planning across teams, align architectures and interfaces, resolve dependencies, and guide delivery.
• Improve system diagnostics, resilience, performance, and maintainability.
• Set standards for architecture, code quality, automated testing, CI/CD, release reliability, and secure engineering.
• Own production-readiness reviews, incident learning, root-cause analysis, and long-term reliability improvements.
• Mentor engineers and communicate technical decisions to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 11+ years of professional software development experience delivering enterprise-grade backend, platform, or systems software.
• Expert-level backend development experience with either Java or Go, combined with strong Python proficiency, including the design and implementation of services, APIs, and microservices.
• Strong knowledge of relational and NoSQL databases, data modeling, transactions, query performance, and distributed systems concepts such as consistency, concurrency, fault tolerance, and scalability.
• Practical experience using AI-assisted development tools for software design, implementation, code review, troubleshooting, or developer productivity.
• Strong experience with Linux, host-level troubleshooting, CI/CD, unit and integration testing, release engineering, and production operations.
• Proven ability to define solution architecture, influence technical strategy, and guide delivery across multiple teams without direct authority.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with enterprise and on-premises platforms, host-based services, and large-scale platform automation.
• Deep expertise in system diagnostics, reliability engineering, incident management, and operational excellence.
• Experience with configuration automation, policy governance, secure software supply chains, and application security practices.
• Strong knowledge of networking fundamentals and low-level system behavior, with a record of mentorship and technical community contribution.

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.

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. 

We are Cisco, and our power starts with you. 

Disclaimer

To 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:

• be in direct response to an application you have submitted through the company career site
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• be conducted across email, phone, or WebEx

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