Technical Lead (HTTPs/Web protocols, C++/Python/Go, 10-14 years)

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  • Location:
    Bangalore, India
  • Area of Interest
    Engineer - Software
  • Job Type
    Professional
  • Technology Interest
    Security, Software Development
  • Job Id
    1432478

The Business Entity  

We’re an agile, fun, passionate upstart culture within Cisco—balancing teamwork and integration with autonomy and innovation—to deliver the most effective solution to our customers’ problems. The unique mix of our disruptive approach to security and Cisco’s industry dominance exceeds what any other security startup could ever achieve on its own.  

What You'll Do  

  • Build Web Gateway Infrastructure and features that scales to run and protect a high volume of web traffic in cloud. 

  • Bring a strong perspective that leads change and motivates engineers to develop simple solutions to complex problems. 

  • Define, architect, design, and deliver new software features for Web gateway. 

  • Write complete functional and design specs. Conduct and participate in peer code/design reviews. 

  • Collaborate with the adjacent software teams in defining the programming interfaces into the various other software modules. 

  • Drive innovative products and solutions with a number of patents/patents-filings 


Who You'll Work With  

You will join a dynamic, multi-talented Engineering team where new features are deployed to customers multiple times a week. We are Umbrella's Web Security team and our mission is to improve the underlying technologies and the UI that drives Umbrella Security. We work on features big and small in order to build the best security solution in the world. This team does it all, so you'll never be bored, and you'll constantly be learning new technologies.  


Who You Are  

You're a Software Engineer who enjoys wearing many hats, a self-starter who’s willing to jump headfirst into the codebase and start improving it immediately.  


Our minimum requirements for this role:  

    • Experience in Web Gateway products, web proxy, Web Security domain (HTTP/HTTPS)
    • Experience designing, implementing, and supporting large-scale transaction systems 
    • Proven Python, Java, C , Golang, C++ skills 
    • In-depth knowledge of object-oriented concepts, programming, and systems design 
    • Understanding of various design patterns and Microservice Architecture 
    • Excellent oral and written communication skills 
    • Experienced in designing, building and debugging large scale distributed systems. 
    • Strong foundation in data structures, algorithms and software design with strong analytical and debugging skills 

    Desired Skills  

    • Experience in an Agile environment 
    • Well versed with Web proxy - NGINX is a plus 
    • Well versed with cloud DB skills – Apache Cassandra, Redis, HBase 
    • Experience building (and supporting) microservices 
    • Amazon Web Services 
    • Relational databases (MySQL, Amazon RDS) 
    • Integration/Delivery tools (Jenkins, Docker, Chef, Ansible) 

  • Educational Background 

    • MSCS/BSCS with 10+ years of experience in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science or related major 

    Why Cisco  

    We connect everything: people, processes, data, and things. We innovate everywhere, taking aggressive risks to craft 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.  

    Why Cisco Cloud Security  

    Cisco Cloud Security enables you to securely embrace the cloud. It protects users against threats anywhere they access the internet and secures your data and applications in the cloud. You can also use the cloud to enhance security through simplified policy management and dynamic threat intelligence. With Cisco Cloud Security, you gain complete visibility into internet activity across cloud applications, all office locations, and roaming devices, plus faster threat detection and response. Cisco Cloud Security provides an effective security platform that is open, automated, and simple to sue. And it’s backed by industry-leading threat information delivered by the Cisco Talos security intelligence and research group.  


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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