Technical Leader - Software Engineering-Security Innovation

The Application Window for this position is expected to close December 31, 2024.

Who We Are

As part of Cisco's Security Business Group, the Security Innovation team incubates ideas for the leading provider of network security services, which enables the world to connect with confidence on any device, anywhere, anytime. Our product portfolio includes the cloud delivered firewall, Web proxy, Zero Trust Proxy, NaaS integrations, and inspection services as highly available distributed systems using cloud engineering practices. We are now engineering a highly available distributed security fabric that brings it all together, Cisco Hypershield. We are highly passionate about the interconnected SASE world, and this is part of our continued to commitment to offer customer-focused security products at the edge of technology.

Cisco Hypershield protects applications, devices and data across public and private data centers, clouds and physical locations - anywhere customers need it. Designed and built with AI in mind from the start, Hypershield enables organizations to achieve security outcomes beyond what has been possible with humans alone.

Who You Are

We are seeking a strong developer to drive architecture design, technical requirements definition, and engineering execution. This individual will be collaborating with Senior Leadership, Product Management, and Customers to achieve success. The ideal candidate for this role is a well-experienced software engineer with strong foundations in algorithms and data structures. You should enjoy writing code, and pride yourself on being able to rapidly develop features and logical constructs in a variety of backend environments.

We're looking for someone interested in making an impact in the field of network security. At ease in architecture discussions, our Technical Leaders present designs and solutions to multiple teams across organizations, gathering feedback to drive consensus. You should not be afraid to be creative; we'd like to meet those who use innovative programming languages, technologies, and tools to drive groundbreaking new products.

What You Will Do

Our Technical Leaders work alongside some of the brightest minds in the industry to build out Cisco's Hypershield solution. Come be a part of a small team driving the next evolution of security at Cisco, creating groundbreaking new technology from scratch! Typical responsibilities include:

• Provide technical leadership for writing high-quality, production-ready code
• Bridging communication, control and processing functions between data and management planes to deliver new end to end features
• Serve as a Subject Matter Expert both internally and externally for Cisco, sharing deep expertise in firewalls, secure web gateways, and/or SASE/SSE.

Minimum Qualifications for this Role:

• 8+ years of programming experience, with at least 3+ years of that experience
• programming on Linux based software platforms in Java, Go, or related languages
• 3+ years working in cloud computing and/or network security solutions
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field

Desired Skills & Experience:

• Hands on experience writing processes, APIs and services for control plane functionality in Linux-based environments.
• Solid programming background in Go, writing libraries, unit tests, strong debugging skills and handle on the build/runtime environment.
• Experience leveraging security protocols, key management, encryption solutions or authentication systems
• Ability to design APIs quickly, securely and efficiently: gRPC, REST, etc.
• Ability to develop features around the resources being controlled. e.g. messaging APIs, centralizing logging, caching, managing tenancy & tokens and onboarding, amongst others.
• Experience working as part of a remote or distributed team

Why Cisco Secure?

We're global, we're adaptable, we're diverse, and our security portfolio is as extensive as it is groundbreaking. Have you heard of Threat, Detection & Response, Zero Trust by Duo, Common Services Engineering, or Cloud & Network Security? Those are only a few of our product teams! The only thing we're missing is YOU.

Join an enterprise security leader with a start-up culture, committed to driving innovation and giving you the opportunity to make an impact. We #InnovateToWin and we know we're better together, that's why we're dedicated to inclusivity, collaboration, and diversity in everything we do.

We're proud to be the Best Small and Mid-Size Enterprises Security Solution Cisco Secure continues to grow and evolve year after year with 100% of Fortune 100 Companies using our products, and we're excited to see the new heights we'll reach with your passion for security, your customer focus, and your desire to change things up!

There are so many amazing reasons to join Cisco. Learn more here!