Security Engineer

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  • Location:
    Offsite, RTP, North Carolina, US
  • Alternate Location
    Anywhere in US
  • Area of Interest
    Security
  • Compensation Range
    130900 USD - 184600 USD
  • Job Type
    Professional
  • Technology Interest
    Security
  • Job Id
    1441779

The application window is expected to close on: 6/27/26 for U.S. ONLY.

NOTE: Job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received.

Meet the Team


This team collaborates with engineering groups to identify product security surfaces, co-design mitigation security strategies, and ensure alignment with the Cisco Secure Development Lifecycle (CSDL). They partner with executives, product marketing leads, technical leaders, program managers, and development/testing teams to drive compliance with security requirements. Working closely with Cisco's Security and Trust Organization, they help build tools and capabilities that empower product teams to achieve robust security outcomes.


Your Impact


A Security Engineer drives security engineering initiatives across Cisco. The candidate must have both deep security engineering expertise and the ability to partner with offer teams to help build and operate secure cloud and on-prem offers. As a Security Engineer, you are passionate about security. You have deep security engineering expertise in multiple areas, and you want to use that expertise to secure internet-scale products.


Minimum Qualifications:


  • BS Degree in Computer Science or related
  • 8+ years of demonstrated experience in a security-focused role.
  • 5+ years experience with multiple security subject areas (application security, encryption and key management, authentication, CI/CD pipelines, containers, and orchestration, public cloud infrastructure).
  • Experience with various classes of security weaknesses, vulnerabilities, and corresponding mitigations.
  • Secure Development Lifecycle (SDL) expertise.
  • Security architecture and/or security engineering experience.

Preferred Qualifications:


  • Experience securing enterprise scale cloud and on-prem offers.
  • Experience with Information Security, Cloud Operations, Monitoring, and Incident Response.
  • CISSP Certification
  • Strong social and technical communication skills, abilities to influence others at multiple levels of the company and with significant experience working with multiple programs and partners at once.
  • Knowledge of Cisco products and solutions, including embedded, virtualized and cloud product offerings.
  • You are experienced in projects using security engineering methodology and workflows.

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. Simply put – we power the future.

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. 

#WeAreCisco

Message to applicants applying to work in the U.S. and/or Canada:

When available, the salary range posted for this position reflects the projected hiring range for new hire, full-time salaries in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including equity or benefits. For non-sales roles the hiring ranges reflect base salary only; employees are also eligible to receive annual bonuses. Hiring ranges for sales positions include base and incentive compensation target. Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location and additional factors, including but not limited to skillset, experience, and relevant education, certifications, or training. Applicants may not be eligible for the full salary range based on their U.S. or Canada hiring location. The recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.

U.S. employees have access to quality medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, short and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance and numerous wellbeing offerings.

Employees receive up to twelve paid holidays per calendar year, which includes one floating holiday (for non-exempt employees), plus a day off for their birthday. Non-Exempt new hires accrue up to 16 days of vacation time off each year, at a rate of 4.92 hours per pay period. Exempt new hires participate in Cisco’s flexible Vacation Time Off policy, which does not place a defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use, but is subject to availability and some business limitations. All new hires are eligible for Sick Time Off subject to Cisco’s Sick Time Off Policy and will have eighty (80) hours of sick time off provided on their hire date and on January 1st of each year thereafter.  Up to 80 hours of unused sick time will be carried forward from one calendar year to the next such that the maximum number of sick time hours an employee may have available is 160 hours. Employees in Illinois have a unique time off program designed specifically with local requirements in mind. All employees also have access to paid time away to deal with critical or emergency issues. We offer additional paid time to volunteer and give back to the community.

Employees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, which is split between quota and non-quota components. For quota-based incentive pay, Cisco typically pays as follows:

.75% of incentive target for each 1% of revenue attainment up to 50% of quota;

1.5% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 50% and 75%;

1% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 75% and 100%; and once performance exceeds 100% attainment, incentive rates are at or above 1% for each 1% of attainment with no cap on incentive compensation.

For non-quota-based sales performance elements such as strategic sales objectives, Cisco may pay up to 125% of target. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid.

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