Technical Leader,Frontend/FullStack Engineering--Security Innovation

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  • Location:
    Offsite, San Jose, California, US
  • Alternate Location
    Offsite, US
  • Area of Interest
    Engineer - Software
  • Compensation Range
    156200 USD - 282900 USD
  • Job Type
    Professional
  • Technology Interest
    Security, Services & Software, Software Development
  • Job Id
    1432109

The deadline for applications is expected to close December 31, 2024.

Who We Are

As part of Cisco’s Security Business Group, the Security Innovation team incubates ideas for the leading provider of network security services, which enables the world to connect with confidence on any device, anywhere, anytime. Our product portfolio includes the cloud delivered firewall, Web proxy, Zero Trust Proxy, NaaS integrations, and inspection services as highly available distributed systems using cloud engineering practices. We are now engineering a highly available distributed security fabric that brings it all together, Cisco Hypershield. We are highly passionate about the interconnected SASE world, and this is part of our continued to commitment to offer customer-focused security products at the edge of technology.

Cisco Hypershield protects applications, devices and data across public and private data centers, clouds and physical locations - anywhere customers need it. Designed and built with AI in mind from the start, Hypershield enables organizations to achieve security outcomes beyond what has been possible with humans alone.

Who You Are

The management plane acts as the brains of Hypershield. The focus of this role lies within the management plane—the creation, application and deployment of security policies, the stitching it together with the AI datapoints in Hypershield.

We seek an innovative Software Engineering Technical Leader interested in influencing the opinions and decision-making of senior executives and/or customers on matters of significance. You will lead API development, micro frontend integrations as well as UI development as you identify and solve obstacles to achieving our vision. Our Technical Leaders review existing technologies, identify areas to leverage and drive improvement, and create groundbreaking new technology from scratch.

We are a small team driving the next evolution of security at Cisco.

Typical responsibilities may include:

  • Serve as team leader to write high quality, production ready code, reinventing security with us!
  • Proactively identify and participate in the resolution of complex problems that impact the direction of the business
  • Develop and deliver innovative strategies that benefit customers and or clients
  • Lead the development and implementation of software development life cycle and agile engineering strategies across applicable teams in anticipation of the changing software development environment
  • May represent or present team outputs at external events
  • Negotiate and drive tradeoffs in timing design and specifications to meet the needs of users and cross functional partners
  • Lead, mentor and influence other engineering team members, serving as a subject matter expert in firewalls, secure web gateways, and/or SASE/SSE.

The ideal candidate for this role will be comfortable leading design discussions with other architects and engineers. He or She can present architecture designs and solutions to multiple teams across organizations, gathering feedback that will help us drive consensus and gain alignment. We need someone not afraid to be creative, and use innovative programming languages, technologies, and tools to drive groundbreaking new products.

Minimum Qualifications for the Role:

  • 8+ years of professional programming experience with Javascript, CSS, React, Node.js, Angular.js or similar frameworks to include experience developing enterprise-level frontend solutions for SaaS deployment
  • Experience with building microservices in public cloud
  • Experience with API development methodologies such as RESTful or gRPC
  • Development experience in a linux environment
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Preferred Qualifications and Experience:

  • Significant Full stack engineering experience preferred.
  • Experience working alongside UX/UI Design, backend engineers, product management and cross-functional engineering teams
  • Background in network security, protocols and policies. (e.g. eg firewalls, secure web gateways, etc.).
  • Secure development nuances token management, authentication, RBAC, etc.
  • Knowledgeable of CI/CD processes, containerization and deployment to public-cloud environments such as AWS.
  • Experience leading development teams and being a mentor to other developers

Why Cisco Secure?

We're global, we're adaptable, we're diverse, and our security portfolio is as extensive as it is groundbreaking. Have you heard of Threat, Detection & Response, Zero Trust by Duo, Common Services Engineering, or Cloud & Network Security? Those are only a few of our product teams! The only thing we're missing is YOU.

Join an enterprise security leader with a start-up culture, committed to driving innovation and giving you the opportunity to make an impact. We #InnovateToWin and we know we're better together, that's why we're dedicated to inclusivity, collaboration, and diversity in everything we do.

We're proud to be the Best Small and Mid-Size Enterprises Security Solution Cisco Secure continues to grow and evolve year after year with 100% of Fortune 100 Companies using our products, and we're excited to see the new heights we'll reach with your passion for security, your customer focus, and your desire to change things up!

There are so many amazing reasons to join Cisco. Learn more here! 


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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