Cisco

Software Engineer, Solutions Engineering

Cisco$152K — $219K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering or a related technical field plus 7 years experience, or a Master's degree with 5 years experience.
  • Hands-on networking experience including routing, switching, and wireless technologies.
  • Programming expertise in Python and REST API automation.
  • Proficiency in AI-assisted engineering tools like Codex and GitHub Copilot.
  • Ability to create documentation and conduct presentations across teams.

Responsibilities

  • Accelerate customer adoption through validation of real-world use cases.
  • Enhance product quality by debugging across various environments and improving regression coverage.
  • Automate development and testing processes using Python, REST APIs, and AI tools.
  • Work closely with engineering, product management, and sales to improve development velocity.
  • Gain visibility by working directly with customers on critical initiatives.

Benefits

  • Cutting-edge tools and technologies such as AI-assisted engineering tools.
  • Opportunities for professional development and exposure to high-impact projects.
  • Collaborative environment with strong interdepartmental partnerships.
  • Involvement in pivotal customer-facing roles with real-world impact.
Full Job Description
The application window is expected to close on: 07/28/2026
Job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received.

Your Impact
  • Accelerate customer adoption by validating real-world use cases, proof-of-concepts, test scenarios, and defect fixes for high-touch enterprise deployments.
  • Improve product and solution quality by debugging issues across development, validation, and customer environments, and by converting field learnings into stronger regression coverage.
  • Increase execution efficiency and engineering productivity through Python and REST API-based automation for development and testing, automated test frameworks, CI/CD validation pipelines, and daily use of AI-assisted engineering tools such as Codex, GitHub Copilot, Claude, and approved Cisco AI tools.
  • Improve development velocity through close partnership with engineering, product management, design, sales, TAC, and customer-facing teams.
  • This provides an excellent opportunity to work closely with customers and their live deployments while gaining high visibility through critical customer-facing initiatives.


Minimum Qualifications
  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering or a related technical field with 7+ years of relevant experience, or Master's degree with 5+ years of relevant experience.
  • Hands-on experience with campus, branch, data center, or service provider networking, including routing, switching, wireless technologies, network design, requirements analysis, and customer deployment workflows.
  • Previous programming experience with Python, REST API-based automation, and AI-assisted engineering tools such as Codex, GitHub Copilot, Claude for network validation, testing, troubleshooting, and deployment workflows.
  • Shown ability to create user documentation, deliver demos and presentations, and work across engineering, product, sales, and customer-facing teams.


Preferred Qualifications
  • Experience with Cisco Catalyst Center, Catalyst 9000 switching, Cisco wireless, Meraki, and ISE.
  • Interest or experience in using AI tools (e.g., AI Agents, MCP, LLMs) to automate development and operational workflows.
  • Experience validating customer scenarios involving upgrades, HA/failover, roaming, segmentation, certificates, and automation workflows.
  • Strong test mindset with experience in regression testing, scale testing, and production issue analysis.
  • Ability to translate customer needs into actionable software, automation, and validation requirements.
  • Experience with writing testplans.
  • Familiarity with building, integrating and testing APIs.
  • Strong collaboration and communication skills.

About Cisco

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79,500 employees
Market Cap
$194.5 billion
Industry
Net Income
$10.1 billion
Founded
2014
5 Year Trend
+1.4%
Revenue
$48 billion
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