Cisco

Senior Backend Engineer

Cisco$167K — $282K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree with 7+ years experience, or Master's with 4+ years, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 5+ years of production experience using Python and/or Go, with strong proficiency in Python.
  • Experience designing and scaling applications for high traffic and large data volumes.
  • Proficient in building backend services and APIs, with exposure to databases and distributed systems.
  • Experience writing automated tests for backend applications using tools like pytest.

Responsibilities

  • Design and develop backend services and APIs for Agent Resilience products.
  • Build high-throughput applications to handle large user volumes and improve system scalability.
  • Develop primarily in Python, with additional work in Go, and automate tests effectively.
  • Work with databases and streaming technologies like Kafka to process data for customer-facing products.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate AI capabilities into scalable products.

Benefits

  • Collaborative work environment with cross-functional teams.
  • Opportunity to work on innovative AI and observability technologies.
  • Involvement in building scalable products for enterprise-level applications.
Full Job Description
The application window is expected to close on: 09/21/2026

Your Impact

As a Senior Backend Engineer on the Agent Resilience Team within Galileo, you will build scalable backend services that power agent observability, metrics, token usage, and other AI resilience capabilities. You'll work primarily in Python and Go and collaborate across engineering and AI teams to build reliable, high-throughput products for enterprise environments.

  • Design, develop, and scale backend services and APIs supporting Agent Resilience products, including observability, metrics, tokenomics, and agent-related capabilities.


  • Build high-throughput applications designed to handle large volumes of users, requests, and data while improving system scalability, reliability, and performance.


  • Develop primarily in Python, with additional development in Go, and write automated tests using tools such as pytest or similar frameworks.


  • Work with technologies such as databases, Kafka or similar streaming systems, and data platforms to consume and process data required by customer-facing product capabilities.


  • Collaborate with front-end engineers, AI researchers, product managers, and other engineering teams to translate complex AI and observability capabilities into scalable enterprise products.


Success in this role means consistently delivering reliable, scalable backend functionality, improving application performance as usage grows, and collaborating effectively across the team to bring Agent Resilience capabilities to enterprise customers.

Minimum Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree with 7+ years of related experience, or Master's degree with 4+ years of related experience, or equivalent practical experience.


  • 5+ years of experience developing production backend applications and services using Python and/or Go, with strong proficiency in Python.


  • Experience designing, building, and scaling applications or services that support high traffic, high throughput, large data volumes, or significant numbers of users.


  • Experience building backend services and APIs and working with databases, distributed application components, or data-intensive systems.


  • Experience writing automated tests for backend applications using frameworks such as pytest or comparable testing tools.


Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience developing products or applications involving AI/ML, generative AI, large language models, AI agents, or agentic applications.


  • Experience working with Kafka or similar streaming technologies and consuming data from streaming or event-driven systems.


  • Experience with analytical or high-scale databases such as ClickHouse or similar technologies.


  • Experience building products in observability, monitoring, analytics, or other data-intensive application domains.


  • Experience improving the scalability, reliability, and performance of backend applications operating at significa nt production scale.


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