Meet the Team 
Join our Security Business Group to design and deliver the AI-driven features of Cisco Secure Access product. You’ll work across multiple stacks and domains to build integrations and features that power the next generation of Cisco’s security platform. We have a highly scalable cloud product spread across 100+ data centre’s where we run our cloud security applications that operate at massive scale. 
Your impact 
As a Leader Software Engineering, you will:

• Design and deliver both functional and non-functional product features using AI SDLC.

• Mentor and guide engineers, promoting best practices.

• Create a culture of execution excellence coupled with innovation AI first mindset.

• Partner with cross-functional core stakeholders within both engineering, product management and field teams to lead the technology direction and facilitate key technical decision points.

• Build and maintain scalable, reliable, and high-performance cloud services that support global enterprise users.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s in computer science or equivalent with 15+ years' experience in designing, analysing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.

• Experience in building cloud delivered SaaS based security solutions.

• Experience with Go, Java, Python.

• Knowledge of AI tools, frameworks, or methodologies.

• Proven skills in managing a high growth business and scaling engineering teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Passion for building scalable, reliable, and maintainable backend systems.

• Experience with AWS/GCP and monitoring/observability tools, CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.

• A collaborative, solution-oriented mindset and ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.

• Strong engineering delivery and execution track record using agile process.

• Sound technical depth - ability to go deep into technical architecture and design when needed to solve a complex problem.

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.

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