About the position
As part of Cisco's Infrastructure & Security Business Group, the Security Innovation team incubates ideas for the leading provider of network-security services, enabling the world to connect with confidence on any device, anywhere, anytime. Our product portfolio includes cloud-delivered firewalls, web proxies, Zero-Trust proxies, NaaS integrations, and other inspection services built as highly available, distributed systems. We are now engineering a security fabric that brings it all together—Cisco Hypershield. Passionate about the interconnected SASE world, we remain committed to delivering customer-focused security at the edge of technology. Cisco Hypershield protects applications, devices, and data across public and private data centers, clouds, and physical locations. Designed with AI in mind from the start, Hypershield drives security outcomes beyond what humans can achieve alone.
Responsibilities
- You'll work across the full stack to design, build, and deliver features that help customers author and apply security policies with confidence.
- Partnering closely with Product, UX, and Backend Engineering, you'll contribute to shaping our front-end experience, APIs, and integration with core Cisco platforms.
- Delivering end-to-end features with a strong sense of ownership and independence.
- Translating UX and PM requirements into performant, user-friendly UI and APIs.
- Participating in agile ceremonies and cross-functional design discussions.
- Collaborating with other Cisco platform teams to deliver integrated solutions.
- Improving code quality, maintainability, and usability across the stack.
Requirements
- 7+ years of professional experience in developing enterprise-level frontend and backend solutions for Saas deployment.
- Hands-on experience with TypeScript-based frontend frameworks (e.g., React, Vue, Angular).
- Experience with backend technologies such as Node.js, Python, or Go.
- Experience building and integrating APIs (REST/gRPC) into production systems.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field.
Nice-to-haves
- Experience in building microservices for public cloud.
- Background in applications or network security, protocols and policies (e.g. firewalls, secure web gateways, and/or SASE/SSE).
- Prior experience architecting management planes, or components related to control, monitoring or deployment of security policies to assets.
- Proven track record collaborating with UX/UI Design, Product, and Senior management.
- Development team leadership, mentorship to other engineers on the team.
- Secure development nuances token management, authentication, RBAC, etc.
- Knowledgeable of Cl/CD processes, containerization and deployment to public-cloud environments such as AWS.
Benefits
- Quality medical, dental and vision insurance.
- 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution.
- Short and long-term disability coverage.
- Basic life insurance.
- Numerous wellbeing offerings.
- Up to twelve paid holidays per calendar year.
- Flexible Vacation Time Off policy.
- Sick Time Off policy with 80 hours provided on hire date.
- Paid time away to deal with critical or emergency issues.
- Additional paid time to volunteer and give back to the community.
