Software Architect

About the Position

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!

Responsibilities

• 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%).

Requirements

• Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• Experience: 10+ years in software engineering, including 3+ years designing distributed systems across on-premises datacenters and public cloud (e.g., AWS).
• Technical Skills:
  • 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).

Nice to Have

• 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.

We Offer

• Competitive salary.
• Opportunity to work in a dynamic, innovative environment.
• Collaborate with a global team of experts.
• Professional growth and development opportunities.

About the Company

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.