Junior Software Developer

Please note this posting is to advertise potential job opportunities. This exact role may not be open today but could open in the near future. When you apply, a Cisco representative may contact you directly if a relevant position opens.

Who You’ll Work With

This is an opportunity to work within a group of exceptional software engineers to develop and support one of the world's leading security products.

The AMP team has shipped client software for all flavors of Windows, Mac, iOS, VMWare as an appliance, and Android, supported by a Linux backend containing Cassandra, Mongo, MySQL, Hive, RabbitMQ, Ruby, and custom C code, all managed by Chef. We're deployed across a cloud infrastructure including AWS and our own hardware running Joyent's SDC and have condensed these services down into a single instance deployable on Vmware.

We know how to ship software, and shipping software feels good.

What You’ll Do

We are looking for a bright and talented software engineer or computer scientist to join a team whose primary goal is to continuously improve the software and infrastructure stack. You will be tasked with:

Planning, coordinating and upgrading the software stack
Planning, coordinating and upgrading system infrastructure
Developing solutions to support the development team in achieving higher efficiency
Bugfixes and refactoring

Required Skills:
Ruby on Rails or equivalent
HTML/CSS/JavaScript
Able to navigate your way around a Unix System
SQL
Data structures and algorithms

Nice to have:

Configuration management experience (chef/ansible/puppet)
Knowledge of infrastructure or experience with cloud-based compute solutions
Networking knowledge
Experience with production systems (High availability, no downtime deployments)
Security experience

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science.

You are self-motivated, results-driven and engaged.
You’re passionate about development and enjoy collaborating in a team-based environment.
You have fun learning new technologies.
You want to get to the bottom of things, understand what’s going on, and make a difference.
You are someone who doesn’t give up when faced with complex problems.