Senior Application Security Engineer (Remote)

As a Senior Application Security Engineer at Meraki, you will be a key member of a team that prevents, finds, and fixes vulnerabilities in our products, services, and enterprise. You will partner with teams across the organization to perform architecture reviews, code security reviews, and promote secure development practices. You will seek out opportunities to build security into development pipelines and collect the data you need to understand the security posture of our systems.

Meraki Security Engineers affect change across the entire stack, from the UI and backend to the device firmware. By acting as a guardian of our customers’ networks and deployments, you will have a direct, immediate, and significant impact on our customers and the hundreds of millions of users who rely on Meraki access points, switches, security appliances, cameras, and mobile device management solutions every single day.

At Meraki, we are passionate about building real products that our customers love! We believe in encouraging a positive environment by hiring, mentoring, and empowering inquisitive, effective, low ego people and providing equal opportunities for all employees to thrive. With the support of management, we constantly look for ways to improve organizationally. We maintain a positive relationship with Cisco that gives us the stability and resources of a larger company without sacrificing our startup atmosphere. We are confident you will love it here!

Example projects for a Security Engineer:

• Drive strategy for the security review function.
• Design and implement solutions for integrating security services into our CI/CD pipelines, ensuring seamless and automated security checks throughout the development process.
• Lead security reviews for complex systems across multiple Cisco business units.
• Collaborate closely with engineers and leaders to prioritize and remediate vulnerabilities, providing guidance and recommendations for swift and effective resolution.
• Partner with software engineers across product teams to enhance the security posture of our cloud technologies, refining deployment practices to establish and maintain robust security standards.

You are an ideal candidate if you:

• Can read and write code in Ruby or Python and enjoy learning new programming languages
• Thrive in finding and helping address security problems such as authentication, authorization and cryptography
• Feel comfortable using Linux

Bonus points for:

• Experience with enterprise cloud solutions and serverless applications
• A BS/MS/Ph.D in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Security, Security Engineering, or a STEM field
• Experience using source-level debuggers, hardware/JTAG debuggers, network protocol analyzers, or logic analyzers to diagnose problems at all layers of the system

Cisco is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, genetic information, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected basis. Cisco will consider for employment, on a case by case basis, qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

At Cisco Meraki, we’re challenging the status quo with the power of diversity, inclusion, and collaboration. When we connect different perspectives, we can imagine new possibilities, inspire innovation, and release the full potential of our people. We’re building an employee experience that includes appreciation, belonging, growth, and purpose for everyone!

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