Who We Are
The Cisco 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.
Cisco Security is passionate about SIG and SASE world and our product portfolio includes the cloud delivers firewall, Web proxy, Zero Trust Proxy, NaaS integrations, and inspection services as highly available distributed systems using cloud engineering practices.
We are seeking a Technical Leader who can participate in architecture design, technical requirements definition, and engineering execution.
This individual will be collaborating with Executive Leadership, Product Management, and Customers to drive the success of our latest groundbreaking security innovation, Cisco Hypershield!
Who You Are
You are an innovative software engineer interested in influencing the opinions and decision-making of senior executives and / or major customers on matters of significance to the organization.
You are comfortable in design discussions with other architects and engineers. You can present architecture designs and solutions to multiple teams across organizations, gathering feedback that will help us drive consensus and gain alignment.
You are not afraid to be creative, use innovative programming languages, technologies, and tools to drive groundbreaking new products.
What You Will Do
The Technical Leader role works alongside our VP of Security Innovation to deliver our security network solutions on an appliance-based platforms with data processing units (DPUs) and network processing units (NPUs) for our Cisco Hypershield product.
Your focus will be leading the efforts to take our existing code base and compile it to run on multiple different platforms.
This position will help identify and solve obstacles to achieving our vision.
In this role, you should expect to review existing technologies, identify areas to leverage and drive improvement, and create groundbreaking new technology from scratch.
You will be looked to both internally and externally Cisco for your expertise, and as such must have deep experience in firewalls, secure web gateways, and / or SASE / SSE.
You will use this knowledge coupled with your ambition to write high-quality, production-ready code to re-invent security with us.
Minimum Qualifications :
- 12+ years of software development experience working with object-oriented programming languages such as Python, TypeScript, Java or similar
- 3+ years of software bringup experience in a linux-based environment
- Development experience with third part SDK’s for implementing build environment frameworks, designing test-harnesses for hardware bringup or debugging third party tools with external vendors
- Experience managing or mentoring software engineers
Preferred Qualifications :
- Experience working in cloud computing and security
- Navigating architectures in a highly cross-functional environments : multiple Software Engineering teams, Product Management, Third-party Vendors, etc.