Backend Technical Leader - Security Engineering

at  Cisco Systems

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 delivered 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!

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• 8+ years of programming experience with Typescript, GoLang, C, Javascript or similar languages
• Prior experience designing backend solutions for enterprise-grade products
• Experience developing new product features from scratch
• Development experience in a linux environment

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field
• Experience integrating third party solutions in areas of network security, management and monitoring
• Strong background in network security, protocols and policies. (e.g. firewalls, secure web gateways, and/or SASE/SSE)
• Familiarity with AI/ML and in particular, Large Language Models
• Experience working alongside UX/UI Design, Product and senior management
• Experience leading development teams and being a mentor to more junior developers

The Backend Technical Leader role works alongside our VP of Security Innovation to develop the backend of the Management Plane driving our next-generation security product, Cisco Hypershield. The management plane is responsible for managing and monitoring and is the brains of our product. As a leader, you will 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 part of a small team driving the next evolution of security at Cisco and beyond and must be a self-starter able to work under minimal direction.
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.