Meet the Team:
As a Senior Software Engineer at Cisco, you will be a key member of a team that prevents, finds, and fixes vulnerabilities in our products, services, and enterprise. You will partner with teams across the organization to perform architecture reviews, conduct code security reviews, and promote secure development practices. You will proactively seek opportunities to build security into development pipelines and collect the data needed to understand the security posture of our systems.
Cisco's Software Engineers drive change across the entire stack—from the UI and backend to device firmware. By acting as a guardian of our customers’ networks and deployments, you will have a direct, immediate, and significant impact on our customers and the hundreds of millions of users who rely on our access points, switches, security appliances, cameras, and mobile device management solutions every day.
At Cisco, we are passionate about building real products that our customers love! We foster a positive environment by hiring, mentoring, and empowering inquisitive, effective, low-ego individuals, and by providing equal opportunities for all employees to thrive. With management's support, we are always looking for ways to improve organizationally.
Your Impact:

• Design and implement solutions for integrating security services into our CI/CD pipelines, ensuring seamless and automated security checks throughout the development process.
• Lead security reviews for complex systems across multiple Cisco business units.
• Collaborate closely with engineers and leaders to prioritize and remediate vulnerabilities, providing guidance and recommendations for swift and effective resolution.
• Partner with software engineers across product teams to enhance the security posture of our cloud technologies, refining deployment practices to establish and maintain robust security standards.

Minimum Qualifications:

• 7+ years of experience as a software engineer.
• Can read and write code in Ruby or Python and enjoy learning new programming languages.
• Experience in pentesting of vulnerability research.
• Experience in finding and helping address security problems such as authentication, authorization, and cryptography.
• Experience in leading cross-functional projects.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with enterprise cloud solutions and serverless applications.
• A BS/MS/Ph.D. in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Security, Security Engineering, or a STEM field.
• Experience using source-level debuggers, hardware/JTAG debuggers, network protocol analyzers, or logic analyzers to diagnose problems at all layers of the system.

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.