Meet the Team
Join a cross-functional Cisco engineering team focused on building secure, user-centered software at scale. You’ll partner with design, product, and security groups to deliver reliable, privacy-preserving solutions that customers love.

Your Impact
You will lead design and delivery of medium-to-large features, influence architecture and security, mentor engineers, and drive improvements in engineering practices and observability.

• Lead technical design and implementation of complex features from concept through production.

• Drive secure-by-design decisions, participate in threat modeling, and improve secure coding practices.

• Mentor engineers and facilitate knowledge sharing (demos, design sessions, brown-bags).

• Define and track success metrics; own postmortems and reliability improvements.

• Collaborate with cross-functional partners to balance delivery trade-offs and roadmap priorities.

Minimum qualifications:

• BS in Computer Science or related field 

• 8+ years software engineering experience in systems programming (C, C++ or Java) with complex codebases

• Understanding of network security, secure code, threat modelling

• Hands-on experience with cryptography, TLS internals, or Post Quantum Cryptography (PQC)

• Hands on experience with AI coding

Preferred Qualifications

• Understanding of modern attack methods. 

• Hands-on experience with security testing tools

• Hands on experience in cloud development – advantage

• Prior experience collaborating with corporate security groups or acting as a security ambassador

• Proficiency in Go, Rust, Python or JavaScript (in addition to C/C++/Java)

Why Cisco? 

At Cisco, we’re revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era – and beyond. We’ve been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint.

Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you’ll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere. 

We are Cisco, and our power starts with you.