Senior Software Engineer
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Meet the Team
Cisco's Webex Engineering Group is redefining the future of collaboration. We're building a world where people connect effortlessly to enjoy modern, uncompromised collaboration across every room, desk, pocket, and application.
Our technology powers industry-leading products like Slido, Webex Meetings, Webex Calling, and Webex Contact Center. As a member of our team, your work will ensure every user gets a truly immersive experience regardless of device or location, empowering the hybrid working patterns of the future.
Our team is based in Krakow. We operate a hybrid working model.
Your Impact
As a Software Engineer, you will design, implement, deliver, and maintain software features and product improvements end-to-end. You will contribute to distributed, highly available microservice architectures and drive technical decisions within the scope of your owned services. You will focus on improving system performance, scalability, reliability, and observability, while leveraging AI technologies to accelerate team productivity. You will collaborate closely with Product Management and SRE/DevOps teams, debug complex production issues, and lead by example in code quality and operational excellence.
Key Responsibilities
Design, implement, deliver, and maintain software features and product improvements end-to-end with minimal supervision.
Contribute to distributed, highly available microservice architectures.
Drive technical decisions within the scope of owned services or components.
Improve system performance, scalability, reliability, and observability.
Lead by example in code quality, testing, and operational excellence.
Debug complex production issues and contribute to incident resolution and postmortems.
Leverage AI technologies (e.g., Copilot, Cursor, Codex) to accelerate team productivity and feature delivery.
Help lead the operational side of our systems and services.
Collaborate closely with engineers, product management, and SRE/DevOps teams.
Mentor junior and mid-level engineers through code reviews and technical discussions.
Minimum Qualifications
Bachelor’s or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
5+ years of professional experience in software development.
Experience in building and maintaining backend services in production environments.
Strong knowledge of software development and architecture concepts with a willingness to learn new technologies quickly.
Preferred Qualifications
Strong experience in Java system development; Node.js, JavaScript, and Python are a plus.
Familiarity with web application frameworks and persistence technologies such as Spring, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and Kafka.
Familiarity with Git, DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, and continuous delivery.
Familiarity with AI coding tools (e.g., Codex, Cursor, Copilot).
Proven ability to debug and resolve complex production issues.
Ability to apply creative skills to complex problems.
Flexible, thrives in diverse team environments, and communicates clearly and precisely.
Strong attention to detail and a commitment to continuous learning and quality results.
Collab Hiring
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.
How we score this
Senior Software Engineer at Cisco scores 19 out of 100 on AI centrality, which makes it AI Level 1 of 4 (Little AI) on this board. The level measures how much of the work is AI, not seniority.
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