AI-Native Software Engineer

Job Title: AI-Native Software Engineer – AWS Req: 5 Positions Location: San Jose, CA or RTP, NC Work Mode: Onsite Contract: Contract Experience: 8+ Years Preferred Job Summary Cisco is looking for an AI-Native Software Engineer with strong AWS expertise who can build and deploy scalable, secure, customer-facing web applications. The ideal candidate will combine strong software engineering fundamentals with hands-on experience using AI throughout the software development lifecycle. The candidate should be comfortable designing high-performance systems, leveraging managed AWS services, reviewing AI-generated code, and using modern AI-assisted/spec-driven development practices. Key Design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain large-scale production web applications hosted on AWS and/or on-premises environments.Apply AI technologies across the complete software development lifecycle, including requirements analysis, story decomposition, coding, testing, debugging, defect resolution, and deployment.Develop scalable and high-performance solutions using appropriate AWS managed services.Evaluate architecture and technical designs with a focus on performance, scalability, security, reliability, and maintainability.Use AI-assisted coding and testing to improve software development productivity and quality.Review AI-generated code and identify potential bugs, security vulnerabilities, performance issues, and architectural risks.Follow spec-driven development and modern AI-native engineering practices.Build secure, fault-tolerant systems capable of supporting a large customer base.Collaborate with cross-functional and geographically distributed teams to drive technical decisions and project delivery.Quickly adopt new AI tools, frameworks, and engineering approaches.Provide technical leadership and communicate architectural trade-offs effectively to stakeholders. Required Technical Skills AWS – Strong Hands-on Experience AWS EC2AWS LambdaECS / EKSS3RDS / DynamoDBAPI GatewayProduction deployment and troubleshooting on AWS Software Development Strong server-side development experience with one or more of:PythonJavaNode.jsExperience with client-side web technologies such as:ReactJavaScriptBackbone or comparable frameworks Distributed / Large-Scale Systems Experience designing secure, scalable, and fault-tolerant systems.Hands-on experience with technologies such as:KafkaElasticsearchMongoDBOracleCockroachDB AI-Native Development Proven experience leveraging Generative AI/AI tools throughout SDLC.AI-assisted software development and testing.Automated defect identification and resolution.Experience with spec-driven development and AI-assisted coding workflows.Ability to evaluate and validate AI-generated code. Raj Yadav rajmurat.y@t3pillars.com