Technical Leader - Security Innovation (Golang)

Application window has been extended and is expected to close on November 8, 2024.
The Cisco 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.
Cisco Security is passionate about the interconnected SASE world. Our product portfolio includes solutions that span SD-WAN firewalls, Web-based proxies, Zero Trust proxies, and inspection and encryption services at a variety of network intersections. We are now engineering a highly available distributed security fabric that brings it all together.
We are seeking a strong developer who can participate in architecture design, technical requirements definition, and engineering execution. This individual will be collaborating with Senior Leadership, Product Management, and Customers.
What You Will Do
You will work alongside some of the brightest minds in the industry on building out Cisco's Hypershield solution. You will extend (architecturally and programmatically) our control plane by bridging communication, control and processing functions between data and management planes, to deliver a plethora of new end-to-end features. We are creating groundbreaking new technology from scratch. We work in a "startup" style environment with minimal bureaucracy.
You will be part of a small team driving the next evolution of security at Cisco and must be able to work under minimal direction. You will be looked to both internally and externally Cisco for your expertise, and as such must have deep experience in firewalls, secure web gateways, and/or SASE/SSE. You will use this knowledge coupled with your ambition to write high-quality, production-ready code to re-invent security with us.
Who You Are
You are an innovative software engineer with experience in designing control plane features and logical constructs and interested in making an impact in the field of network security. You are comfortable in design discussions with other architects and engineers. You can present architecture designs and solutions to multiple teams across organizations, capturing feedback that will help us drive consensus and gain alignment. You are not afraid to be creative, use innovative programming languages, technologies, and tools to drive groundbreaking new products.
Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree with a minimum of 3 years of experience programming in Go in Linux based software platforms
• 7+ years working in cloud computing and network security environments.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Hands on experience writing processes, APIs and services for control plane functionality in Linux-based environments.
• Solid programming background in Go, writing libraries, unit tests, strong debugging skills and handle on the build/runtime environment.
• Experience leveraging security protocols, key management, encryption solutions or authentication systems.
• Ability to design APIs quickly, securely and efficiently: gRPC, REST, etc.
• Ability to develop features around the resources being controlled. e.g. messaging APIs, centralizing logging, caching, managing tenancy & tokens and onboarding, amongst others.
• Working as member of a remote or distributed team

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!
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