Security Foundations Engineer — Cloud, C++/Go, On-Call

Cisco; Kraków; On-site; PLN 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Cisco’s Security Foundations Engineering team under the Splunk Core Platform organization builds and maintains core security components used to securely manage secrets, auditing, cryptography, and compliance across the product portfolio. We operate 10+ engineers across AWS, Azure and GCP, delivering reliable, scalable platform security services.

The team emphasizes secure coding, robust testing, and on-call responsibilities, while collaborating with senior engineers, product management, support,

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree plus 3 years of related experience.
• Professional experience delivering and maintaining production software in C++ and/or Go.
• Solid foundation in software design, debugging, testing and secure coding principles.
• Good understanding of Unix/Linux (including shell scripting), networking concepts and cybersecurity fundamentals.
• Ability to troubleshoot technical issues methodically and learn unfamiliar parts of a system.
• Experience adopting and applying GenAI tools across software engineering workflows.
• Growth mindset, strong desire to learn, try new technologies, and take on new challenges.
• Strong verbal and written English communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Build, test, debug, and maintain core security components and capabilities using C++ and Go to support secure, reliable, and scalable product functionality.
• Deliver well-scoped features, fixes, enhancements, automation, and operational improvements from design through implementation.
• Write clean, maintainable, and secure code with strong unit and integration test coverage to improve product quality, reliability, and compliance.
• Investigate product and production issues to identify root causes and contribute to durable fixes, while participating in 24/7 on-call support and broader Ops/SRE responsibilities to help ensure service availability and operational excellence.
• Collaborate with senior engineers, product management, support, and engineering partners to improve system behaviour, deliver customer value, and grow ownership over broader technical areas over time.

Skills

C++

Go

Unix/Linux

Networking

Security fundamentals

GenAI tools

English

Education

Bachelor’s degree in related field

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

HashiCorp

Prometheus

Grafana

Splunk

Job description

Cisco’s Security Foundations Engineering team under the Splunk Core Platform organization builds and maintains core security components used to securely manage secrets, auditing, cryptography, and compliance across the product portfolio. We operate 10+ engineers across AWS, Azure and GCP, delivering reliable, scalable platform security services.

The team emphasizes secure coding, robust testing, and on-call responsibilities, while collaborating with senior engineers, product management, support,