Security-Focused Software Engineering Leader

Cisco Systems, Inc.; San Jose (CA); Hybrid; USD 214,000 - 310,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) with Cisco match

Paid parental leave

Job summary

Cisco Systems, Inc. is seeking a Software Engineer for Site Reliability Engineering - Security in a hybrid role based near San Jose. You’ll shape secure infrastructure and internal platforms, drive Zero Trust, and embed security signals into operation and observability.

You will influence leadership decisions, reduce attack surfaces, and ensure safe-by-default developer environments. The role targets seasoned professionals with cloud security, SRE, and automation experience, working across

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree with 12+ years of related experience or equivalent.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience with major cloud providers and cloud security posture.
• 3+ years building automation in Python and/or Go for security use cases.
• 5+ years applying SRE practices in production with SLIs/SLOs and incident post-mortems.

Responsibilities

• Design secure, scalable infrastructure and developer platforms.
• Drive Zero Trust adoption across workloads and internal tooling.
• Embed security signals into observability and incident response.
• Advise leadership and balance security with velocity and reliability.
• Lead cross-team post-mortems and automate policy as code to reduce toil.

Skills

Cloud security

Go/Python automation

SRE practices

Zero Trust

Incident response

Education

Bachelor's degree + 12 years

Master's degree + 8 years

PhD + 5 years

Tools

Terraform

OPA/Kyverno/Checkov

ArgoCD/Flux

CI/CD security gates

Job description

Cisco Systems, Inc. is seeking a Software Engineer for Site Reliability Engineering - Security in a hybrid role based near San Jose. You’ll shape secure infrastructure and internal platforms, drive Zero Trust, and embed security signals into operation and observability.

You will influence leadership decisions, reduce attack surfaces, and ensure safe-by-default developer environments. The role targets seasoned professionals with cloud security, SRE, and automation experience, working across