Software Engineering Technical Leader - Golang, Networking + Cloud Security | 12 to 16 yrs

Cisco
Bengaluru
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 12-16 yearsEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Technical leadership","Mentoring engineers","Systems problem-solving","Architecture and design review","Hands-on production ownership"]

Lead Cisco Secure Access’s Agent Gateway end to end—set technical direction, own architecture, and guide implementation and production operations. Build secure, highly available distributed services in Golang, driving control-plane/data-plane resilience, regional failover, and incident-ready production practices. Collaborate on proxy and networking across L4/L7 (Envoy/H2O, DNS, TLS/mTLS, HTTP/2, gRPC), and enable secure AI-agent integrations with MCP and enterprise tool APIs.

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Software Engineering Technical Leader - Golang, Networking + Cloud Security | 12 to 16 yrs

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Job Summary

Lead Cisco Secure Access’s Agent Gateway end to end—set technical direction, own architecture, and guide implementation and production operations. Build secure, highly available distributed services in Golang, driving control-plane/data-plane resilience, regional failover, and incident-ready production practices. Collaborate on proxy and networking across L4/L7 (Envoy/H2O, DNS, TLS/mTLS, HTTP/2, gRPC), and enable secure AI-agent integrations with MCP and enterprise tool APIs.
Location: Bengaluru
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Set technical direction, lead architecture and design reviews, mentor engineers, establish engineering standards, and remain hands-on through implementation and production resolution.
  • •Own Agent Gateway end to end—from ideation and architecture through Golang development, cloud deployment, production operations, and customer support.
  • •Design resilient control-plane and data-plane services with failure handling, scalability, consistency boundaries, capacity planning, and safe regional failover.
  • •Lead proxy and networking design across L4/L7 routing and protocols (Envoy/H2O, DNS, TLS/mTLS, HTTP/HTTP/2, gRPC, load balancing, service discovery, policy enforcement).
  • •Guide secure AI-agent integration with MCP servers, LLM providers, and enterprise tool APIs, including identity/authorization, credential isolation, tenant boundaries, auditability, streaming, and tool execution.

Key Requirements

  • •12+ years of software engineering experience, including at least 4 years leading an engineering team or providing technical leadership for production services.
  • •Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science/Engineering (or equivalent practical experience).
  • •Hands-on Golang development and system design for scalable distributed services (concurrency, APIs, retries/timeouts, backpressure, idempotency, caching, failure recovery).
  • •Hands-on experience with Envoy/H2O (or comparable proxies) and L4/L7 networking (TCP/IP, DNS, TLS/mTLS, HTTP/HTTP/2, gRPC, load balancing, troubleshooting).
  • •Production ownership across Linux, containers, cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP), observability/on-call, incident management, safe deployments, rollback, and disaster recovery.
Experience:12-16 yearsDistributed systemsNetwork securityCloudAI agentsLLM integrations
Education:Bachelor's in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
Skills:Technical leadershipMentoring engineersSystems problem-solvingArchitecture and design reviewHands-on production ownership
Tech Stack:GolangEnvoyH2OTCP/IPDNSTLSMTLSHTTPHTTP/2GRPCLoad balancingService discoveryAWSAzureGCPLinuxContainersKubernetesCI/CDOpenTelemetry

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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