Cisco
Software Engineer (Hybrid)
Job at a glance
- Pay
- $139,300 – $282,000
- Workplace
- Hybrid
- Employment
- Full-time
- Sector
- Engineering & Technology
- Posted
- Nov 14, 2026
- First found
- Nov 14, 2026, 10:12 AM ET
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About the job
The application window is expected to close on: 11/16/2026
Meet the Team
The Go to Market IT team is a dynamic group of people working on big transformational, highly visible initiatives and acquired company integrations. The Cisco.com engineering team within the GTM IT organization is leading the charge on crafting a first-in-class digital experience for our customers and partners as they interact with our flagship corporate Cisco.com website, which is the largest and most visited digital platform supporting all stages of the lifecycle. We are at the epicenter of developing modern, cloud-native technologies, integrating various artificial intelligence tools & LLM models that allow us to stay agile and adaptable in a constantly evolving market. Pioneers in our field, Cisco.com engineering team enables customers and partners to maximize value with a simple, unified Cisco experience, driving accelerated time to impact. Join us and be a part of this exciting, ground-breaking journey.
Your Impact
- Develop and maintain a framework-agnostic component system and its AEM-specific implementations (HTL/Sling Models) in alignment with architectural standards.
- Architect AEM authoring solutions (templates, fragments, dialogs) and provide training/guidance to content authors.
- Collaborate with UX designers and researchers to translate Figma prototypes into pixel-perfect components, ensuring they meet strict accessibility (WCAG 2.1+) and performance requirements.
- Participate in functional discovery, design decomposition, code reviews, and the establishment of shared design patterns with peers.
- Maintain comprehensive documentation regarding component behavior, usage, and dependencies.
- Stay informed on emerging front-end trends and tooling to ensure the system remains modern and efficient.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
- 6+ years of experience in front-end or full‑stack development building large‑scale web applications, with proficiency in spec-driven development and the use of AI-assisted coding tools.
- 2+ years of experience Adobe Experience Manager, including HTL, Core Components, template development, dialogs/policies, client library strategy, and authoring workflows.
- 2+ years designing and building modular component systems using framework‑agnostic web components.
- Experience working in an Nx-managed (or similar) mono-repository comprised of TypeScript, ES Modules, Sass/CSS, Vite, Vitest, and ESLint/Stylelint, with familiarity in Docker and Node/npm.
Preferred Qualifications
- Proficient in Spec Driven Software development (using AI coding assistants/agents)
- Ability to build and maintain automated evaluation harnesses for testing LLM outputs, measuring accuracy, hallucination rates, latency, and regression across model/prompt versions.
- Proficiency in instrumenting harnesses to capture traces, token usage, response quality metrics, and failure modes for ongoing model performance monitoring.
- Ability to build harness metrics that track token consumption per test case/prompt version, enabling cost-vs-quality tradeoff analysis across model iterations.
- Familiarity with accessibility standards (WCAG 2.1 AA), ARIA, and keyboard interaction models.
- Versioning & Process: Knowledge of GIT and Gitflow principles as well as semver versioning control.
- Collaboration: Excellent communication skills and collaborative approach with designers, partners, and peers.
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.
Message to applicants applying to work in the U.S. and/or Canada:
The starting salary range posted for this position is $139,300.00 to $203,600.00 and reflects the projected salary range for new hires in this position in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including incentive compensation*, equity, or benefits.
Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location, market conditions, job-related skillset, experience, qualifications, education, certifications, and/or training. The full salary range for certain locations is listed below. For locations not listed below, the recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.
U.S. employees are offered benefits, subject to Cisco’s plan eligibility rules, which include medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, paid parental leave, short and long-term disability coverage, and basic life insurance. Please see the Cisco careers site to discover more benefits and perks. Employees may be eligible to receive grants of Cisco restricted stock units, which vest following continued employment with Cisco for defined periods of time.
U.S. employees are eligible for paid time away as described below, subject to Cisco’s policies:
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10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees
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1 paid day off for employee’s birthday, paid year-end holiday shutdown, and 4 paid days off for personal wellness determined by Cisco
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Non-exempt employees **receive 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year, accrued at rate of 4.92 hours per pay period for full-time employees
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Exempt employees participate in Cisco’s flexible vacation time off program, which has no defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use (subject to availability and some business limitations)
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80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter, and up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward from one calendar year to the next
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Additional paid time away may be requested to deal with critical or emergency issues for family members
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Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer
For non-sales roles, employees are also eligible to earn annual bonuses subject to Cisco’s policies.
Employees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, which is split between quota and non-quota components, subject to the applicable Cisco plan. For quota-based incentive pay, Cisco typically pays as follows:
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.75% of incentive target for each 1% of revenue attainment up to 50% of quota;
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1.5% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 50% and 75%;
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1% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 75% and 100%; and
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Once performance exceeds 100% attainment, incentive rates are at or above 1% for each 1% of attainment with no cap on incentive compensation.
For non-quota-based sales performance elements such as strategic sales objectives, Cisco may pay 0% up to 125% of target. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid.
The applicable full salary ranges for this position, by specific state, are listed below:
New York City Metro Area:
$167,700.00 - $282,000.00
Non-Metro New York state & Washington state:
$149,100.00 - $250,900.00
- For quota-based sales roles on Cisco’s sales plan, the ranges provided in this posting include base pay and sales target incentive compensation combined.**
Employees in Illinois, whether exempt or non-exempt, will participate in a unique time off program to meet local requirements.