Senior Software Engineer, Backend
Cisco · Lawrenceville, GA
$165,000–$241,400from the description
Jul 19, 2026
Lawrenceville, GA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A backend software engineering role on a Time Series Data team responsible for building and maintaining the infrastructure and data pipelines that collect and serve telemetry from millions of networked devices. Day-to-day work centers on C++ development in Linux, distributed systems at large scale, and CI/CD and containerization tooling. Suits engineers with hands-on distributed systems and C++11-or-newer experience who are comfortable working across SQL databases and Kubernetes deployments.
Senior level · Remote · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 680 people in the San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley, CA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 510–890
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $190,744 (middle half $167,095–$224,501). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (5)
The role is based at Cisco Meraki; the posting does not specify a single city but Meraki's headquarters is San Francisco, CA — the CBSA reflects that. The salary range ($165K–$241.4K) is stated as the general US/Canada range; state-specific ranges (NYC metro, non-metro NY, WA) are also listed.
The posting requires applicants to be a U.S. Person (citizen, national, lawful permanent resident, asylee, or refugee) due to FedRAMP High / IL-5 environment work, but does not gate on a formal US government security clearance — no clearance level is required.
LLMs (specifically 'LLM-based coding assistants') appear in the Minimum Qualifications section as part of the development lifecycle requirement, so it is treated as a hard gate alongside automated testing frameworks.
The alt SOC (15-1243 Database Architects) reflects the team's significant focus on time-series data platforms and data pipelines, though the primary day-to-day work is clearly software development (C++, distributed systems, backend services).
The salary range quoted ($165,000–$241,400) is the general US/Canada base salary range; the NYC metro range is higher ($165,000–$277,600). Equity (RSUs) and annual bonuses are also offered but not quantified in the posting.
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