Software Architect

• Design solutions across the Cisco dCloud platform and build, run and support them
• Shape technical direction as an individual contributor through designs, code and reviews
• Influence five partner teams
• Build libraries and APIs for content developers to ship reliable demos faster
• Create MCP servers and catalog chatbots to make demos easier to find and run
• Code services, SDKs and libraries in Go and Python on Kubernetes
• Build micro-frontends with AI tools in partnership with the UI team
• Write design documents, review designs and set engineering standards
• Maintain system reliability and security
• Plan work with partner teams and content developers

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field (or equivalent experience)
• 10+ years in software engineering
• 3+ years designing distributed systems across on-premises datacenters and public cloud (e.g., AWS)
• Production development experience in Go and Python
• Experience running containerized services on Kubernetes (e.g., EKS) with GitOps (Argo CD, Helm), CI/CD (GitHub Actions) and Terraform or similar Infrastructure as Code
• Experience designing APIs, SDKs or libraries used by other teams
• Professional experience with AI coding tools (e.g., Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Cursor)
• Preferred: experience building LLM applications such as MCP servers, AI agents, RAG pipelines or chatbots
• Preferred: architecture-level understanding of React micro-frontends
• Preferred: understanding of compute, network and storage virtualization (e.g., VMware, Nutanix), VLANs, VXLAN, trunking and route aggregation
• Preferred: experience with Java or Kotlin, and with GCP or Azure
• Eagerness to learn new technologies and explain designs clearly to technical and business audiences

• Opportunities to grow and build at Cisco
• Collaboration with a worldwide network of experts
• Work on meaningful solutions with global impact
• Remote-first organization