As the Security Foundations Engineering team within the Platform Engineering organization, we own and operate foundational platform security components that enable secure management of secrets, auditing, cryptography, and compliance capabilities across our product portfolio. Our work aligns with internal and external security standards, industry best practices, and rigorous compliance requirements. We are a team of 10+ engineers working in a fast-paced, high-velocity environment, leveraging innovative technologies. Our customers include internal engineering teams as well as end users, and we support critical use cases that ensure the security, compliance, and functionality of our SaaS and On-Prem offerings. We build and maintain a fleet of cloud-based, highly available platform security services deployed across multiple geographic regions on multiple cloud service providers.
Your Impact
As a member of the team, you will contribute to building, testing, and maintaining core security components to support secure and reliable product functionality. You will deliver well-defined features and improvements, write clean and secure code, and assist in solving product and production issues. You will also participate in on-call rotations and support operational tasks to help maintain service availability for our cloud-based platform security services. Collaborating with senior engineers and other teams, you will grow your skills and take on increasing responsibility over time.
Minimum Qualifications
- Master's degree or bachelor's degree plus 1-2 years of related experience
- Experience delivering and maintaining production software in Go and/or C++
- Understanding of software design, debugging, testing, and secure coding principles
- Familiarity with Unix/Linux (including shell scripting), networking concepts, and cybersecurity fundamentals
- Ability to solve technical issues methodically and learn unfamiliar parts of a system
- Willingness to adopt and apply GenAI tools across software engineering workflows
- Growth mindset with a strong desire to learn, try new technologies, and take on new challenges
- Strong verbal and written English communication skills
Preferred Qualifications
- Exposure to cloud infrastructure across multiple cloud service providers and familiarity with DevOps practices
- Basic knowledge of containerization technologies and container orchestration with Kubernetes
- Experience with automation tools like Terraform for infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD pipeline management
- Understanding of cybersecurity concepts, including secrets management, auditing, cryptography, and compliance
- Familiarity with observability, monitoring, and logging tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and Splunk
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.
Skills Required
- Master's degree, or bachelor's degree plus 1–2 years of related experience
- Experience delivering and maintaining production software in Go and/or C++
- Understanding of software design, debugging, testing, and secure coding principles
- Familiarity with Unix/Linux, including shell scripting
- Familiarity with networking concepts and cybersecurity fundamentals
- Ability to solve technical issues methodically and learn unfamiliar parts of a system
- Willingness to adopt and apply GenAI tools across software engineering workflows
- Growth mindset and willingness to learn new technologies and take on challenges
- Strong verbal and written English communication skills
- Exposure to cloud infrastructure across multiple cloud service providers and DevOps practices
- Basic knowledge of containerization and Kubernetes
- Experience with Terraform for infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD pipeline management
- Understanding of secrets management, auditing, cryptography, and compliance
- Familiarity with Prometheus, Grafana, and Splunk
Cisco Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Cisco and has not been reviewed or approved by Cisco.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is described as broad, with medical options including PPOs, high-deductible plans, and regional HMOs. Feedback suggests robust wellness and mental-health resources, with some locations offering on-site support and second medical opinions.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time off is highlighted through paid holidays, paid time off, and additional recharge days such as “Days for Me,” with generous volunteer time also mentioned. Feedback suggests these programs help support rest, volunteering, and critical life events.
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Parental & Family Support — Parental and family support appears extensive, including paid child-bonding leave, family medical leave, and caregiving resources. Observations also point to family-planning assistance and adoption or surrogacy support in some regions.
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What We Do
Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) enables people to make powerful connections--whether in business, education, philanthropy, or creativity. Cisco hardware, software, and service offerings are used to create the Internet solutions that make networks possible--providing easy access to information anywhere, at any time. Cisco was founded in 1984 by a small group of computer scientists from Stanford University. Since the company's inception, Cisco engineers have been leaders in the development of Internet Protocol (IP)-based networking technologies. Today, with more than 71,000 employees worldwide, this tradition of innovation continues with industry-leading products and solutions in the company's core development areas of routing and switching, as well as in advanced technologies such as home networking, IP telephony, optical networking, security, storage area networking, and wireless technology. In addition to its products, Cisco provides a broad range of service offerings, including technical support and advanced services. Cisco sells its products and services, both directly through its own sales force as well as through its channel partners, to large enterprises, commercial businesses, service providers, and consumers.
