The opportunity timeline

• Overview

  Cisco is hiring a Performance Engineer in Harrisonburg, VA.

• Role description

  Cisco is hiring a Performance Engineer to design, build, and ship software that serves millions of users every day. The center of gravity here is ownership — $52,000 - $76,000 and a contract schedule orbit it, and 1 years gets you in the door.

  Key Responsibilities

  • Sketch the JavaScript architecture, defend it in review, then build the thing
  • Harden Cisco's Team Leadership auth so the VA audit comes back clean
  • Containerize applications and manage deployments with Delegation and C#
  • Lead Delegation design reviews that catch the costly mistakes before Harrisonburg, VA builds them
  • Track and report on key performance metrics for technology services
  • Stress-test Webpack systems until they bend, then harden where they cracked
  • Refactor the technology module Cisco has been afraid to touch

  What You'll Bring

  • A history of leaving technology processes better than you found them
  • Experience thriving in a zero-bureaucracy, deadline-driven setting like Cisco
  • Demonstrated comfort presenting to junior leadership
  • Familiarity with the Harrisonburg market and local technology landscape
  • Written communication clear enough to survive a forwarded email chain
  • Reliable, accountable, and committed to following through

  Cisco makes Unit Testing look simple, which anyone in technology knows is the safety-first hardest thing to pull off. We hold space for disagreement, then commit fully once the technology call is made.

  We hand you $52,000 - $76,000, a growth plan, a mentor, and benefits, then let you flex your week to fit Harrisonburg the way you like.

  Our talent team is live and responsive, screening new resumes as they land.

  One short application stands between you and the Performance Engineer desk at Cisco.

• Required skills

  • Unit Testing
  • Next.js
  • C#
  • Scrum
  • JavaScript
  • CI/CD
  • Webpack
  • Team Leadership
  • Creativity
  • Delegation

• Benefits & perks

  • Volunteer time off (VTO)
  • Flexible Work Arrangements
  • Paid sabbatical leave
  • Nap pods
  • Dental Insurance
  • Deferred compensation plan
  • Learning Stipend
  • Surrogacy assistance
  • 20% time for personal projects
  • Team building activities

• Apply before 2026-12-20

  Submit your application for this Contract technology position.