Software Engineering Technical Leader

About the Position

Software Engineering Technical Leader

Location: Budapest, Budapest, Hungary

Category: Product and Engineering

Job ID: 2025014

Employment Type: FULL_TIME

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Responsibilities

• Build and operate secure, scalable microservice applications on AWS and Kubernetes, ensuring reliability and observability.
• Develop and integrate AI and agentic capabilities, including LLM integration, retrieval augmented generation, tool and function calling, and agentic workflows.
• Apply a security-first approach across development, deployment, and operations.
• Automate testing, delivery, and monitoring through modern DevSecOps practices.
• Troubleshoot complex production issues to resolution.

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Requirements

• Education: Bachelor's + 8 years of related experience, or Master's + 6 years of related experience, or equivalent related work experience.
• Experience:
  • 5+ years of professional software engineering experience delivering production applications in Python, Java, Go, JavaScript/TypeScript, or C++.
  • 3+ years of experience developing and operating microservices, REST APIs, or distributed applications on a public cloud platform such as AWS.
  • 2+ years of experience deploying and operating containerized applications in Kubernetes in a production environment.
  • 1+ years of hands-on experience building applications with generative AI or large language models.

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Nice to Have

• Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.
• Experience developing or integrating AI agents and agentic workflows in an enterprise setting.
• Hands-on experience with agent frameworks such as LangGraph, LangChain, or Semantic Kernel, and with Model Context Protocol or comparable agent-to-tool integration technologies.
• Experience implementing AI security, guardrails, governance, evaluation, or observability for AI systems.
• Track record of mentoring engineers, contributing to engineering standards, and collaborating across teams to deliver customer outcomes.

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We Offer

• Opportunity to work with a team that builds and runs cloud-native services and AI capabilities.
• Be part of a hands-on group of senior engineers who stay with their code from first commit through live operations.
• Work in a hybrid environment.
• Competitive salary and benefits.

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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.