Software Engineer - Java/Hibernate/Postgres/ReactJS (4+ years of experience)

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About the Role:

Our team builds and maintain the Cisco Catalyst Center network Management product, which manage millions of network devices. Our customers use the Catalyst Center to monitor and configure critical IT infrastructure that serves tens of millions of people every day.

As a Software Engineer on Catalyst Center team, you will collaborate with Product Managers, firmware and other backend engineers to architect, design, and build a large-scale wireless system. You will enable connections between over a million network nodes and our Wireless customers relying on our products to serve tens of millions of people. With the large footprint that we have, quality is our highest priority. Wireless team is responsible for delivering a simple to use but very powerful Network Management to our customers. With help from product managers and firmware engineers, you will construct intuitive and powerful systems that will be used by customers.

What you will work on:

• Solve challenging architecture problems to build scalable and extendable systems.
• Work with firmware engineers and PM to build intuitive and powerful workflows to handle containers.
• Coordinate and align knowledge and opinions between firmware, SRE and other developers.
• With the help of other engineers, implement sophisticated system to manage the Wireless network.
• Identify and solve performance bottlenecks in our Backend architecture.
• Take complete ownership from conception to production release by leveraging your ability to influence, facilitate, and work collaboratively across teams.
• Lead, mentor, and spread best practices to other specialists on the team.
  
  

You are an ideal fit if you have:

• 4+ years of experience writing professional production code and tests for large scale systems
• 3+ years of experience in Backend & Full Stack technologies Java/Hibernate/Postgres/ReactJS.
• Can implement efficient database design and query performance in a relational database (Postgres, SQL)
• Strategic and product-oriented approach with a desire to understand users
• Outstanding communication skills
  
  

Bonus points for any of the following:

• Experience or interest in Wireless Networking
• Experience in building rich web UIs with React (and Redux)
• Familiarity working with Observability tools like ELK, Grafana etc is a plus
  
  

Does this sound like you? We'd love to hear from you!

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