Software Engineer - Quality Engineering

  • Location:
    Offsite, San Jose, California, US
  • Area of Interest
    Engineer - Software
  • Compensation Range
    126400 USD - 222200 USD
  • Job Type
    Professional
  • Technology Interest
    Security
  • Job Id
    1432489

Application window has been extended and expected to close on 01/17/2024. 

However, the job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received.

Meet the Team

Cisco's Security Business Group (SBG) is leading the charge in addressing customer security challenges, generating over $2B annually and experiencing over 40% year-over-year growth in software recurring revenue. As Cisco transitions to a software and recurring revenue model, SBG's Cloud Security group is innovating with cloud-delivered security solutions, operating like a startup within the organization. This group aims to create complex yet simple-to-deploy security solutions, achieving 100% year-over-year growth.

Cloud security is essential due to the shift in work dynamics, increased BYOD use, and the migration of business applications and infrastructure to the cloud, alongside evolving threats. As traditional perimeter-based security evolves, our team of passionate experts is dedicated to solving these challenges.

Our scalable cloud infrastructure spans 25 data centers, handling over 100 billion requests daily from 65 million active users. Our engineers lead projects, fostering a culture of inclusion, autonomy, and software craftsmanship. We emphasize collaboration, testing, CI/CD, data-driven decisions, and mentorship, prioritizing team success and shared goals.

Your Impact

  • Provide technical mentorship and expertise in cloud security, architecture, and standard practices to ensure robust and scalable solutions. Collaborate with product managers and multi-functional teams to understand customer requirements, translate them into technical specifications, and ensure the team delivers solutions that meet or exceed customer expectations
  • Work closely with multi-functional teams, including support, escalations team, operations, and other engineering teams, to resolve customer issues and address system vulnerabilities. Ensure compliance with security standards
  • Contribute to the entire cloud software development lifecycle, from concept stage until delivery and post-launch support.
  • Design, build, and maintain automated testing frameworks and tools. Operate continuous, reliable, and maintainable systems with functional and integration-level test automation services. Analyze test results, identify issues, and work with the development team to facilitate fixes
  • Fix and resolve complex system-level stability or scalability issues.
  • Maintain code integrity and organization, ensuring the highest level of performance for both front-end and back-end code.

Minimum Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree with 7 years of related experience, or a Master's degree with 4 years of related experience, or a PhD with 1 year of related experience; all with software engineering experience.
  • 5+ years of experience in technical leadership, and overseeing delivery of solution engineering.
  • Experience in developing and maintaining automation frameworks for complex use cases using Python, JavaScript, or other languages. Proficiency in Terraform and Ansible is an added advantage.
  • Cloud Native experience: Docker Containers, Kubernetes Orchestration, Providers (AWS, GCP, Azure),
  • Experience with enterprise solutions like Secure Service Edge (SSE) and Secure Access Service Edge (SASE).

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience of working and collaborating with geographically distributed teams.
  • Proficiency in agile methodologies such as Scrum and Kanban. Ability to adapt quickly based on continuous customer feedback and changing priorities.
  • A demeanor geared towards learning from failures, celebrating successes, and consistently seeking improvement through regular retrospectives.
  • Significant experience developing software with Python or Golang and writing scripts to deploy automated test setups
  • Highly skilled in Cloud Native Architecture, Microservices Architecture and Event Driven Architecture.
  • Your communication and presentation skills are exemplary, working in highly collaborative and multi-functional teams.

#WEARECISCO

#WeAreCisco where every individual brings their unique skills and perspectives together to pursue our purpose of powering an inclusive future for all.

Our passion is connection-we celebrate our employees' diverse set of backgrounds and focus on unlocking potential. Cisconians often experience one company, many careers where learning and development are encouraged and supported at every stage. Our technology, tools, and culture pioneered hybrid work trends, allowing all to not only give their best, but be their best.

We understand our outstanding opportunity to bring communities together and at the heart of that is our people. One-third of Cisconians collaborate in our 30 employee resource organizations, called Inclusive Communities, to connect, foster belonging, learn to be informed allies, and make a difference. Dedicated paid time off to volunteer-80 hours each year-allows us to give back to causes we are passionate about, and nearly 86% do!

Our purpose, driven by our people, is what makes us the worldwide leader in technology that powers the internet. Helping our customers reimagine their applications, secure their enterprise, transform their infrastructure, and meet their sustainability goals is what we do best. We ensure that every step we take is a step towards a more inclusive future for all. Take your next step and be you, with us!

#LI-LM1


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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