Who You'll Work With

Cisco Security Business Group (SBG) is at the forefront of developing solutions for addressing the security challenges of our customers. With an annual revenue exceeding $2B, it is one of the fastest growing businesses at Cisco. As Cisco is transforming its business model energetically to a software and recurring revenue model, security business is leading this journey with 40%+ YoY growth in software recurring revenue.

The Cloud Security group within SBG focuses on developing cloud delivered security solutions (SaaS based) in a platform centric approach. This group is an autonomous group within the business group, and operates like a Startup to nurture innovation in a highly disruptive and high growth domain. This group was formed a year back by combining some of existing cloud assets Cisco had with two hugely successful acquisitions - OpenDNS. Our vision is to build the most complex security solutions in a cloud delivered way with utmost simplicity - disrupt industry's thinking around how deep and how broad a security solution can be while keeping it easy to deploy and simple to lead. We are at an exciting stage of this journey with 100% YoY growth, and looking for a passionate, innovative and committed engineering leader for our Product Engineering group to help us scale our business.

Why is cloud security relevant? Because today's world has changed. The way we work has fundamentally changed. There is more roaming users than ever with rapid growth of BYOD. Business applications have moved to cloud. Enterprise's critical infrastructure has been moving to public/private cloud. At the same time, threat landscape has drastically changed with increased sophistication of attacks. The notion of traditional perimeter-based security is being redefined. Since users, apps and infrastructure have all moved to cloud, security must too. Welcome to the team of geeks passionate about solving this very problem and making world a better place…a secure place.

We are looking for hard-working Sr software engineers to help us migrate, launch and operate the next generation of the Umbrella cloud security / Cisco Secure Access platform in an AWS GovCloud-native environment to dramatically expand access to the US government market. Our focus is on expanding the platform's reach to FedRAMP (Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program) marketplace.

Our engineering team is composed of highly skilled individuals who are comfortable working in a fast-paced, sometimes ambiguous, and technically challenging environment. Members are involved with all stages of the product development process from solving complex engineering problems to working directly with customers.

What You’ll Do

You are a Senior Software Engineer that enjoys wearing many hats. You have experience building, scaling and operating software’s in cloud-native environments. A self-starter that's willing to jump headfirst into the codebase and start improving it immediately. You stay on top of industry best practices and you’ve successfully established relationships with engineering teams based on collaboration, empathy, and the pursuit of excellence.

Who You Are

• 8+ years of experience in software development.
• Professional experience in cloud-native development using Java/J2EE or Golang.
• Experience as a senior engineer in highly transactional, 24x7 production cloud and SaaS environments.
• Working experience in DB Technologies like RDS/Aurora DB/DynamoDB
• Strong coding and problem-solving skills with a quality shift-left mindset.
• Hands-on experience with RESTful API implementation.
• Proficiency with SCM, CI/CD tools like Jenkins, GIT.
• In-depth knowledge of design patterns, OOP concepts, and distributed computing & Protocols like HTTP/HTTPS/TLS, TCP/IP, DNS, SAML & concepts like Authentication/Authorization, Encryption/Hashing, etc
• Experience with container and orchestration technologies such as Docker, EKS, and ECS along with IaC like Terraform/ Terragrunt.
• Excellent debugging and troubleshooting skills and have the experience in preparing RCA.
• Ability to work in an agile delivery mode with a high degree of ownership and accountability.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to mentor team members.
• Experience working with multi-location and multi-functional teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with advanced deployment strategies, such as blue/green and canary deployments.
• Experience in building or maintaining software, libraries, and infrastructure to meet FedRAMP, SOC2, or ISO27001 compliance.
• Knowledge of testing methodologies, monitoring, observability tools, and techniques.
• Familiarity with CIS hardening benchmarks and vulnerability scanning.
• Experience with technologies like Kafka, Redis, and NoSQL databases.

About Cisco

The Internet of Everything is a phenomenon driving new opportunities for Cisco and it's transforming our customers' businesses worldwide. We are pioneers and have been since the early days of connectivity. Today, we are building teams that are expanding our technology solutions in the mobile, cloud, security, IT, and big data spaces, including software and consulting services. As Cisco delivers the network that powers the Internet, we are connecting the unconnected. Imagine creating unprecedented disruption. Your revolutionary ideas will impact everything from retail, healthcare, and entertainment, to public and private sectors, and far beyond. Collaborate with like-minded innovators in a fun and flexible culture that has earned Cisco global recognition as a Great PlaceToWork. With roughly 10 billion connected things in the world now and over 50 billion estimated in the future, your career has exponential possibilities at Cisco.

When available, the salary range posted for this position reflects the projected hiring range for new hire, full-time salaries in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including equity or benefits. For non-sales roles the hiring ranges reflect base salary only; employees are also eligible to receive annual bonuses. Hiring ranges for sales positions include base and incentive compensation target. Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location and additional factors, including but not limited to skillset, experience, and relevant education, certifications, or training. Applicants may not be eligible for the full salary range based on their U.S. or Canada hiring location. The recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.

U.S. employees have access to quality medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, short and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance and numerous wellbeing offerings. Employees receive up to twelve paid holidays per calendar year, which includes one floating holiday, plus a day off for their birthday. Employees accrue up to 20 days of Paid Time Off (PTO) each year and have access to paid time away to deal with critical or emergency issues without tapping into their PTO. We offer additional paid time to volunteer and give back to the community. Employees are also able to purchase company stock through our Employee Stock Purchase Program.

Employees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, which is split between quota and non-quota components. For quota-based incentive pay, Cisco typically pays as follows:

.75% of incentive target for each 1% of revenue attainment up to 50% of quota;

1.5% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 50% and 75%;

1% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 75% and 100%; and once performance exceeds 100% attainment, incentive rates are at or above 1% for each 1% of attainment with no cap on incentive compensation.

For non-quota-based sales performance elements such as strategic sales objectives, Cisco may pay up to 125% of target. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid.