Who You’ll Work With

Cisco’s Corporate
Strategic Innovation Group (CSIG), part of CSO, is a high-energy, motivated
team that shares a passion for all-things innovation. This includes our Innovation
Centers, which are located around the world, where disruptive talent comes
together to explore, discover and develop groundbreaking solutions to solve
customers’ toughest challenges. CSIG is
responsible for the exploration of emerging technologies, which includes
Blockchain, drones, cognitive computing, AR / VR and other areas of interest. You
will join an internal startup team within CSIG, developing an Enterprise
Blockchain solution. We work through the whole software development lifecycle
with a lightweight Agile approach. We use the latest tools and processes to
ease our lives as developers with a strong focus in software quality.

Who You Are

Role & Responsibilities

We are
looking for a passionate and hands-on solution engineer to join us on the
sprint that takes us from prototype to MVP. You will be an integral part
of the team, joining us at the earliest stage of the journey.

• Architect,
  and develop Enterprise Blockchain solutions as part of an internal start-up
  team.
• Responsible
  for analysis, design and implementation of Enterprise Blockchain
  applications
• Develop
  beautiful, maintainable code, with test driven CI/CD development
• Work
  in an agile environment, iterating on customer solutions
• Design and optimize systems for
  scalability and high availability

Our Minimum Requirements for this Role are:

This
role requires a significantly experienced, confident and hands-on candidate
with relevant full life cycle architecture and software development
capabilities, including:

• Solid
  expertise in system and software architecture delivering scalable Enterprise
  software
• Experience
  with distributed systems and protocol design
• Experience
  with RDBMS, NoSQL or distributed databases
• Expertise in
  cloud native, micro-services based system software development
• Strong
  programming experience in GO, Node, Python, Java or C++
• Must have broad and deep technical knowledge and passion for learning
  new technologies rapidly and independently. Should have broad technical
  foundation and be able to understand network, operating system, database and
  application development design
• Strong understanding of Algorithms and Data Structures
• Understanding of the cryptographic principles
  underpinning of Blockchain technologies
• Understanding of secure software development practices
• Good knowledge
  of best practices for web-scale infrastructure.
• Good
  knowledge of container solutions.
• Experience
  working with cloud solutions
• Bonus:
  Experience working with, or knowledge of, the bitcoin protocol, and blockchain
  solutions
• Bonus: Smart
  contract development experience
• Bonus:
  Big Data experience (NoSQL, Hadoop)

• Open
  source advocacy and participation
• A Master’s degree in Computer Science / Mathematics or
  equivalent work experience in a field utilizing the same subject matter

Professional Skills:

• Ability
  to think and operate as a team player
• Extremely
  strong interpersonal and communication skills (written and verbal) with the
  ability to assess and clearly communicate business value and technical and
  project risk
• Able
  to learn complex technologies quickly, work in a fast-paced, team-driven
  environment
• Must
  be able to multi-task, manage details and keep sight of overall objectives

Why Cisco

We connect everything:
people, processes, data, and things. We innovate everywhere, taking bold risks
to shape the technologies that give us smart cities, connected cars, and
handheld hospitals. And we do it in style with unique personalities who aren’t
afraid to change the way the world works, lives, plays and learns.

We are thought leaders,
tech geeks, pop culture aficionados, and we even have a few purple haired rock
stars. We celebrate the creativity and diversity that fuels our innovation. We
are dreamers and we are doers.

We Are Cisco.