Technical Leader, Backend Engineer- Cisco Security Innovation

The deadline for applications 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

The management plane acts as the brains of Hypershield. We seek an innovative Backend Engineering Technical Leader interested in influencing the opinions and decision-making of senior executives and/or customers on matters of significance. You will lead development of novel features associated with onboarding, managing, monitoring, and securing of customer assets. This includes map AI-generated security policies to hierarchial groupings of assets, instrument abilities to navigate security posture of customer workloads and integrate Hypershield technologies with other Cisco products.

You will work closely with our chief architect and review existing technologies, drive improvement, and create groundbreaking new technologies from scratch. We are a small team driving the next evolution of security at Cisco.

Typical responsibilities may include:

• Proactively identify and participate in the resolution of complex problems that impact the direction of the business
• Develop and deliver innovative strategies that benefit customers and or clients
• Lead the development and implementation of software development life cycle and agile engineering strategies across applicable teams in anticipation of the changing software development environment
• May represent or present team outputs at external events
• Communicate product or program priorities deadlines and shifts in requirements in the context of engineering priorities and user needs
• Negotiate and drive tradeoffs in timing design and specifications to meet the needs of users and cross functional partners
• Lead, mentor and influence other engineering team members

The ideal candidate for this role will be comfortable leading design discussions with other architects and engineers. He or She can present architecture designs and solutions to multiple teams across organizations, gathering feedback that will help us drive consensus and gain alignment. We need someone not afraid to be creative, and use innovative programming languages, technologies, and tools to drive groundbreaking new products.

Minimum Qualifications for this Role:

• 8+ years professional programming with TypeScript, Golang, C, JavaScript or similar languages; experience must include the design of features of enterprise grade security solutions.
• Linux development environment experience
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field

Preferred Qualifications and Experience:

• Strong background in applications or network security, protocols and policies. (e.g. firewalls, secure web gateways, and/or SASE/SSE)
• Strong handle of algorithms and data structure concepts
• Prior experience architecting management planes, or components related to control, monitoring or deployment of security policies to assets
• Experience integrating third party solutions
• Proven track record collaborating with UX/UI Design, Product, and Senior management
• Development team leadership, mentorship to other engineers on the 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!