Cisco Careers

About Our Business Group

Cisco Cloud Security is a leading provider of network security services, enabling the world to connect to the Internet with confidence on any device, anywhere, anytime. The Secure Internet Gateway team is building the next generation of firewalls, proxy and inspection services as highly-available distributed systems using cloud engineering practices.

We are looking for talented engineers to help us launch the next generation of cloud-delivered security services, and deliver a stronger offering with unprecedented customer experience. Our engineering team is composed of highly skilled individuals who are comfortable working in a fast paced and technically challenging environment. Members are involved with all stages of the product development process from solving complex engineering problems to working directly with customers.

About Us

We are building the future of cloud-delivered security at Cisco. Our team is responsible for the development and operations of security applications built on the Cisco Umbrella platform. Our cloud security services are mission-critical to the success of the next evolution of Cisco Security. Our product is the Security Internet Gateway, a new security paradigm using cloud engineering to change the way security is managed and delivered.

About You

You have a strong interest in developing cloud-native solutions to network and security problems

You have strong programming skills and are passionate about both building and running applications

You are a natural problem-solver and trouble-shooter

You have the ability to think creatively and are self-motivated

You have love working together as a team and have a desire to speak up and share ideas

You have an engineering degree (or equivalent) with 2+ years of software development experience

You have are passionate about:

• Linux internals and the open-source stack
• Networking, routing/switching, L3/L4, TCP/IP
• C programming
• Cloud-native architectures

Additional Desirable Knowledge:

• Experience with Python, Golang, Bash, and Linux
• Security products such as firewalls, proxies, inspection engines, classification engines
• Continuous integration and continuous deployment
• Agile practices and iterative development

About Cisco

We connect everything: people, processes, data, and things. We innovate everywhere, taking bold risks to shape the technologies that give us smart cities, connected cars, and handheld hospitals. And we do it in style with unique personalities who aren’t afraid to change the way the world works, lives, plays and learns. We are thought leaders, tech geeks, pop culture aficionados, and we even have a few purple haired musicians. We celebrate the creativity and diversity that fuels our innovation. We are dreamers and we are doers.