Software Architect

Cisco is hiring a Software Architect for a remote role open to applicants in Portugal. Level rates it ; you can apply on Cisco.

Level's read on this job

On Level's scale, this role is Works on AI ●●●○: the daily work is on AI products, without building the model.
The posting lists this role as remote.
Tools and skills the posting cites include Claude, Copilot and Cursor.
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AI in this role

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Job Title: Software Architect – Demo Platform & Automation, Cisco dCloud

MEET THE TEAM

Cisco dCloud lets sales teams, partners and customers launch live demos and labs of Cisco solutions on demand, worldwide. Every demo helps Cisco win customers, and our platform runs them across five Cisco-owned datacenters and the public cloud. We're a collaborative, remote-first organization of 50 software, DevOps, UI, virtualization and support engineers working alongside the content developers who build the demos. We automate environments that combine cloud, virtual infrastructure and real Cisco hardware, and now we're bringing AI into all of it!

YOUR IMPACT

Design solutions across the dCloud platform, then build, run and support them yourself. Shape technical direction as an individual contributor, influencing five partner teams through your designs, code and reviews. Build the libraries and APIs content developers use to ship reliable demos faster. Create MCP servers and catalog chatbots that make demos easier to find and run. You'll succeed when demos start reliably, new ones ship faster and AI agents can run our automation!

WHAT YOU'LL DO

Spend about 45% of your time coding services, SDKs and libraries in Go and Python on Kubernetes, and building micro-frontends with AI tools in partnership with the UI team. Spend 25% on architecture: write design documents, review designs and set engineering standards. Use the rest to keep your systems reliable and secure (15%) and to plan work with partner teams and content developers (15%).

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field (or equivalent experience) and 10+ years in software engineering, including 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 QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience building LLM applications such as MCP servers, AI agents, RAG pipelines or chatbots

• Architecture-level understanding of React micro-frontends

• Understanding of compute, network and storage virtualization (e.g., VMware, Nutanix), and comfort discussing VLANs, VXLAN, trunking and route aggregation

• Experience with Java or Kotlin, and with GCP or Azure

• Eagerness to learn new technologies and to explain designs clearly to technical and business audiences

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 rate this

Software Architect at Cisco rates 65 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Works on AI (AI Level 3 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Works on AI. The daily work is on AI products, without building the model.

●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
●○○○ Little AI0 to 39

Levels come from how often the tools, models and workflows of the role are named in the posting itself. Read the description and count the AI tools, models and workflows it names.

Key facts

Software Architect is an open job at Cisco.
Level rates this role AI Level 3 of 4: Works on AI.
The role is based in Oeiras, Portugal and is marked remote.
The job was posted on October 22, 2026.
Applications are handled by Cisco. Apply on Cisco

Prepare for this job

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Skills and AI tools this role asks for

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Questions you could be asked

How would you design a retrieval step so the model answers from real data instead of guessing?
How do you decide when an AI agent can act on its own versus asking for approval first?
What are the limits of Claude that you've run into, and how did you work around them?
What's a project where you used Copilot hands-on?
Walk me through how you've used Cursor in your day-to-day work.

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List these exact terms on your resume: RAG, AI agents, Claude, Copilot, and Cursor. An applicant tracking system matches the wording, not the idea.
Attach one line of real, concrete experience to at least one of them. A tool named with nothing behind it rarely survives a human read.
Show where AI is part of your daily process, not a one-off project. This role expects it to be a running habit.

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