Software Engineer

What You’ll Do As a Software Engineer in the Cisco Crosswork Hierarchical Controller (HCO) team, you will help evolve a network controller that provides visibility, assurance, analytics, and service provisioning across complex IP and optical networks. You will collaborate with engineers and cross-functional partners to translate service providers’ needs into secure, scalable, and reliable software. Develop and maintain shared frameworks, backend services, APIs, and web applications for network observability and management.Improve application scalability and performance across services and user interfaces.Apply security, privacy, and resilience practices throughout the software development lifecycle.Build agentic workflows and incorporate AI-powered capabilities into product experiences. Who You’ll Work With You will join a globally distributed engineering team and collaborate with Product Management, Design/UX, system and network architects, technical support, and customer-facing teams. Minimum Qualifications A related bachelor’s degree and 3+ years of relevant software engineering experience, or equivalent practical experience.Hands-on Python or Go development experience for backend services, with TypeScript and React experience building modern web applications.Familiarity with API development and integration using REST or RESTCONF, and API specifications such as OpenAPI.Experience with Linux and distributed services in Kubernetes-based environments.Experience with agentic engineering workflows using AI-assisted development tools such as Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, or equivalent platforms. Preferred Qualifications Experience analyzing application performance, reliability, and scalability issues.Understanding of networking technologies such as IP, MPLS, SR-TE, SRv6, IS-IS, BGP, Ethernet services, or optical transport. 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.