Meet the Team
The Platform Identity team builds the secure foundation that enables millions of users to access the Splunk and Cisco ecosystem seamlessly and safely. Our mission is to deliver a centralized Identity and Access Management (IAM) platform that is scalable, resilient, and intelligent. We are a highly collaborative engineering group working across product, security, and infrastructure teams to unify identity across the entire portfolio. If you’re inspired by large-scale engineering challenges and shaping the future of secure user experiences, you’ll feel right at home with us.
Your Impact
As a Senior Software Engineer you will design, build, and operate the core identity services that power authentication, authorization, and user lifecycle management across Splunk and Cisco products. You will architect scalable and secure APIs, unify identity systems, and serve as a subject matter expert on modern identity protocols. Your work will directly strengthen platform security, improve customer trust, and influence our long-term identity strategy. You will also explore opportunities to use AI/ML to increase automation and improve identity protection. Success in this role means delivering reliable services, driving technical perfection, and collaborating effectively with cross-functional teams to ship impactful solutions.
Minimum Qualifications
Strong, hands-on C++ and Go experience building secure, scalable, high-throughput production services.
Strong, hands-on C++ experience in production systems, including authentication or systems-level, performance-sensitive code.
Ability to work effectively across Go services and existing C++ Splunkd or authentication-integration components.
Deep knowledge of OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, SAML, token and session lifecycle, and authorization models such as RBAC and ABAC.
Experience designing and operating secure, distributed, fault-tolerant systems.
Ability to lead technical design, resolve complex production issues, and make sound security and architectural trade-offs.
Strong automated-testing, observability, CI/CD, and on-call/service-ownership practices.
Preferred Qualifications
OAuth device-code flow, CLI authentication, Okta, service identities, and secure-production-access workflows.
Experience leading identity-platform integrations, service modernization, or cross-language migration work.
Performance profiling, incident leadership, and debugging complex production failures.
Experience mentoring engineers and driving technical decisions across security, platform, and partner teams.
LDAP, KV Store, SAML migration or deprecation, and identity-platform integration.
Go-based sidecars, service runtimes, and host/service integration.
Kubernetes operations, E2E test pipelines, production dashboards, and secure-access auditing.
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
- Strong hands-on C++ and Go experience building secure, scalable, high-throughput production services
- Strong hands-on C++ experience in production systems, including authentication or systems-level, performance-sensitive code
- Ability to work across Go services and existing C++ Splunkd or authentication-integration components
- Deep knowledge of OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, SAML, token and session lifecycle, RBAC, and ABAC
- Experience designing and operating secure, distributed, fault-tolerant systems
- Ability to lead technical design, resolve complex production issues, and make security and architectural trade-offs
- Strong automated testing, observability, CI/CD, and on-call/service-ownership practices
- Experience with OAuth device-code flow, CLI authentication, Okta, service identities, and secure-production-access workflows
- Experience leading identity-platform integrations, service modernization, or cross-language migration work
- Experience with performance profiling, incident leadership, and debugging complex production failures
- Experience mentoring engineers and driving technical decisions across security, platform, and partner teams
- Experience with LDAP, KV Store, SAML migration or deprecation, and identity-platform integration
- Experience with Go-based sidecars, service runtimes, and host/service integration
- Experience with Kubernetes operations, E2E test pipelines, production dashboards, and secure-access auditing
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 robust with multiple plan options and access to onsite/virtual LifeConnections Health Centers on major campuses. Company materials also highlight mental-health resources and comprehensive preventive care, supporting strong core medical benefits.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time away includes company‑wide recharge days, a paid birthday, a year‑end shutdown, and paid Critical Time Off for emergencies. Paid volunteer days further expand opportunities to step away and recharge.
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Parental & Family Support — Policies include a global minimum for paid parental leave for primary caregivers, caregiving concierge services, and on‑site children’s learning centers in select locations. In the U.S., family‑building support is consolidated under Carrot with a defined lifetime maximum, indicating structured assistance across fertility, preservation, adoption, and surrogacy.
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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.
