Software Engineering Technical Leader

Cisco
San Jose
Workplace: HybridFull timeUSD 214,100 - 309,800 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Communication","Influence","Cross-team collaboration"]

Own the technical direction for building and operating secure infrastructure and developer platforms for Cisco CX Engineering. Lead secure-by-default design across Kubernetes control planes, GitOps and CI/CD pipelines, and observability stacks, driving Zero Trust adoption and embedding security signals into SRE incident response. Partner with engineering leadership to balance security, velocity, and reliability, and automate security/compliance via policy-as-code and evidence collection to reduce attack surface and remediation time.

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Software Engineering Technical Leader

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Job Summary

Own the technical direction for building and operating secure infrastructure and developer platforms for Cisco CX Engineering. Lead secure-by-default design across Kubernetes control planes, GitOps and CI/CD pipelines, and observability stacks, driving Zero Trust adoption and embedding security signals into SRE incident response. Partner with engineering leadership to balance security, velocity, and reliability, and automate security/compliance via policy-as-code and evidence collection to reduce attack surface and remediation time.
Location: San Jose
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering

Key Responsibilities

  • •Set the technical direction for how secure infrastructure and developer platforms are built and operated for Cisco CX Engineering.
  • •Design secure-by-default systems and drive Zero Trust adoption by embedding security signals into SRE observability and incident response.
  • •Harden platforms including Kubernetes control planes, GitOps systems, CI/CD pipelines, and observability stacks, treating internal tooling as a high-value target.
  • •Own reliability and security posture for critical services such as secrets management, PKI, and IAM governance.
  • •Lead cross-team incident response and blameless post-mortems, and automate security/compliance via policy-as-code and automated evidence collection to reduce toil and remediation time.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 214,100 - 309,800 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Health InsuranceDentalVision401kPaid Parental

Key Requirements

  • •Bachelor's degree + 12 years of related experience, or Master's degree + 8 years, or PhD + 5 years.
  • •5+ years hands-on production experience operating and scaling at least one major cloud (AWS, Azure, or GCP), with direct ownership of cloud security posture (advanced IAM, KMS/secrets management, network controls, CSPM or equivalent).
  • •3+ years building production automation and tooling in Python and/or Go applied to security use cases (vulnerability management, secrets orchestration, compliance evidence collection, or detection integration).
  • •5+ years applying SRE practices in production, including defining SLIs/SLOs, managing error budgets, serving as incident commander, and running post-mortems that drive follow-up engineering work.
  • •5+ years applying security fundamentals in production: threat modeling, secure-by-default architecture, least-privilege/workload identity, secrets & certificate lifecycle management, and vulnerability management at scale.
Experience:Cloud securitySREKubernetesSecurity automationAI/ML security
Education:Bachelor's
Skills:CommunicationInfluenceCross-team collaboration
Certifications:CISSPCCSPAWS Certified Security – Specialty
Tech Stack:KubernetesGitOpsCI/CDObservabilityAWSAzureGCPPythonGoZero TrustIAMKMSSecrets managementPKITerraformOPAKyvernoCheckovTfsecArgoCD

Company Brief

Cisco
Global technology company that designs, manufactures, and sells networking hardware, telecommunications equipment, and high-technology services and products for enterprises, service providers, and governments worldwide.
Industry: Networking Equipment
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: San Jose, United States
Founded: 1984
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