Meet the Team
Join the Cisco Secure Access team building the Cisco AI Agent Gateway, a distributed, highly available platform that enables AI agents to securely connect to MCP servers, LLM providers, and enterprise tool APIs. We combine distributed systems, network security, proxy, cloud, and AI expertise to deliver identity-aware access, policy enforcement, observability, and auditability at scale.
Your Impact
As a Software Engineering Technical Leader, you will set technical direction and own the Agent Gateway end to end, from ideation and architecture through Golang development, cloud deployment, production operations, and customer support. You will lead a team, solve complex distributed-system and networking problems, and deliver secure, highly available services.
- Set technical direction, lead architecture and design reviews, mentor engineers, establish standards, and remain hands-on through implementation and production resolution.
- Design resilient control-plane and data-plane services with clear failure handling, scalability, consistency boundaries, capacity planning, and safe regional failover.
- Lead Envoy/H2O proxy and networking design across L4/L7 routing, DNS, TLS/mTLS, HTTP, HTTP/2, gRPC, load balancing, service discovery, and policy enforcement.
- Own delivery from requirements through validation, cloud deployment, support, and continuous improvement, including SLOs, observability, incidents, rollback, capacity, and disaster recovery.
- Guide secure AI-agent integration with MCP servers, LLM providers, and enterprise tool APIs, including identity, authorization, credential isolation, tenant boundaries, auditability, streaming, and tool execution.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 12 or more years of software engineering experience, including at least 4 years leading an engineering team or providing technical leadership for production services.
- Hands-on Golang development and system-design experience for scalable distributed services, including concurrency, APIs, retries, timeouts, backpressure, idempotency, caching, and failure recovery.
- Hands-on experience with Envoy, H2O, or comparable proxies and L4/L7 networking, including TCP/IP, DNS, TLS/mTLS, HTTP, HTTP/2, gRPC, load balancing, and troubleshooting.
- Production ownership experience across Linux, containers, AWS/Azure/GCP, observability, on-call response, incident management, customer support, safe deployments, rollback, and disaster recovery.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience building network-security products using Envoy xDS, custom filters, H2O, API gateways, service meshes, or comparable high-performance proxies.
- Practical knowledge of LLM applications and MCP clients, servers, tools, resources, prompts, transports, streaming, authentication, authorization, and secure tool execution.
- Experience with Kubernetes, infrastructure automation, CI/CD, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, distributed tracing, load testing, and production traffic analysis.
- Familiarity with OAuth/OIDC, workload identity, secrets management, agent frameworks, LLM provider APIs, software supply-chain security, and agent-specific threats.
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.
Disclaimer
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Skills Required
- Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
- 12 or more years of software engineering experience
- At least 4 years leading an engineering team or providing technical leadership for production services
- Hands-on Golang development and system-design experience for scalable distributed services
- Experience with concurrency, APIs, retries, timeouts, backpressure, idempotency, caching, and failure recovery
- Hands-on experience with Envoy, H2O, or comparable proxies and L4/L7 networking
- Experience with TCP/IP, DNS, TLS/mTLS, HTTP, HTTP/2, gRPC, load balancing, and troubleshooting
- Production ownership experience across Linux, containers, and AWS, Azure, or GCP
- Experience with observability, on-call response, incident management, customer support, safe deployments, rollback, and disaster recovery
- Experience building network-security products using Envoy xDS, custom filters, H2O, API gateways, service meshes, or comparable high-performance proxies
- Practical knowledge of LLM applications and MCP clients, servers, tools, resources, prompts, transports, streaming, authentication, authorization, and secure tool execution
- Experience with Kubernetes, infrastructure automation, CI/CD, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, distributed tracing, load testing, and production traffic analysis
- Familiarity with OAuth/OIDC, workload identity, secrets management, agent frameworks, LLM provider APIs, software supply-chain security, and agent-specific threats
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.
Cisco Insights
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