Software Engineer

Location: Chennai, India

Remote Type: Remote

Time Type: Full time

Job Description

NOTE: Job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received.

Meet the Team 

The Security Engineering team, as part of the Security & Trust Organization, is responsible for engineering and delivering tools that help discover, mitigate, and report on security engineering across every application, platform, and service that Cisco delivers to its customers. It is our responsibility to provide an end-to-end digital experience with automation, including mentorship, assessment, validation and reporting, to help engineering across Cisco.

At our core, we are a team of engineers, with a focus on security tooling, committed to helping engineer tools that strive to seamlessly integrate and support BUILDING IN security through the development workflow.

Your Impact 

We are looking for a full-stack software engineer to build capabilities that will help secure the products of today and workloads on cloud of tomorrow. Your technical leadership will be vital in solving some key challenges ahead of us whether it is architecting an always-on API platform that scales to our enterprise, breathing life into legacy applications with monolithic architectures, or crafting a proof-of-concept for an innovative idea. You will collaborate with leadership and engineers equally to put in place an execution plan, using agile methodologies, to develop/test/deploy/support industry leading services for our customers.

• You have proven experience serving as a software engineer for development of web application projects for enterprises supporting 10K+ customers.
• You have a passion for developing snappy fast web applications and regularly scout the web for new and improved methodology/technology for solving common web app paradigms.
• You are able to use the right mix of custom developed and cloud native services to provide the capabilities needed to support the application.
• You possess a deep understanding of Web API’s and micro-service patterns, have experience in building and consuming RESTful web services
• You are decisive without being divisive, you can analytically and logically pick from solutions and drive forward.
• You have proven ability to balance multiple priorities and participate in decision making that span organizational boundaries.
• You have excellent communication and organization skills

Minimum Qualifications

• BS or MS degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field.
• Demonstrated fluency in leveraging AI technologies across the entire software development lifecycle, including breaking down user stories into actionable tasks, AI-assisted coding and testing, automated defect resolution, and deployment of fully tested software.
• Server-side software development experience with Python, Java, NodeJS, and/or other similar technologies; Client-side web application development experience using React, Backbone, native JavaScript, and/or other comparable technologies.
• Expertise in building SECURE large-scale systems using fault-tolerant technologies (such as ElasticSearch, CockroachDB, Oracle, MongoDB & Kafka); Experience with building and deploying with Cloud native technologies.
• CISSP/CCSP or similar certification useful.

Why Cisco? 

At Cisco, we’re revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era – and beyond. We’ve been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint.

Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you’ll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere. 

We are Cisco, and our power starts with you.