Leader, Software Engineering

Cisco•Milpitas, MI

7d•Remote

About The Position

Cloud Security Engineering at Cisco drives the technology that's transforming the way customers secure their networks, and more importantly, their users. We're seeking a Senior Manager for our Software Engineering teams focusing on Software as a Service (SaaS) products. The individual will lead our dedicated engineers in designing, developing, testing, and deploying robust cloud-based software solutions. A successful candidate should have strong leadership skills, an extensive background in software engineering, a strategic attitude, and experience in people management. Your Impact As an Engineering Leader within the Control Plane organization, you will be a part of a team to help design, development, and operation of key microservices focused on cloud network experience, traffic optimization and insights related that our Umbrella and Cisco Secure Access products offer. This is a small team that does big things.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree or higher in engineering or computer science, with at least 12+ years of overall experience, including 2+ years in people management, having managed multiple teams.
Experience with container orchestration (AWS ECS/EKS), event-driven architectures (Kafka), and high-throughput data stores (MySQL/Redis).
Experience in multiple programming languages such as Python and/or Go with practical experience in cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, or GCP (AWS preferred).
Experience with modern software development practices, including CI/CD and DevOps, with experience building agentic systems and employing AI to improve productivity across the software development lifecycle (SDLC).

Nice To Haves

Experience with security platforms, zero trust, SSE/SASE, ZTNA, SWG, CASB, DLP, FWaaS , DNS security, browser isolation, or digital experience monitoring.
Proven experience designing and managing API Gateways to support diverse client inter actions in a secure, scalable SaaS environment.
Deep working knowledge of observability stacks (e.g., Datadog, Splunk, Prometheus) an d SRE practices.
Experience operating services with high availability requirements (99.99%+) at scale.
Experience operating in regulated environments with knowledge of security compliance frameworks (SOC2/GDPR/FedRAMP).
Demonstrated success in performance-tuning database queries, managing stateful services in containerized environments, and ensuring cache efficiency in high-traffic applications.
Excellent verbal, written, and presentation skills; able to collaborate effectively with multi-functional teams in a fast-paced environment.
Demonstrates a strong sense of ownership, initiative, and commitment to developing talent and supporting team growth.

Responsibilities

Lead fast-paced teams of Cisco cloud security to effectively Design, develop and deliver production quality applications that are highly scalable, supportable and maintainable.
Partner with internal and external teams, understand business and technical requirements, plan and deliver.
Develop excellent working relationships.
Align to and influence Company and Org Goals, understanding the inter-company dependencies and develop action plans to address problems.
Customer Advocate and designated POCs for select customer.
Understand and drive the team to solve complex network level technical problems.
Set clear expectations and goals for individuals and team.
Drive team with using objectives and key results with measurable metrics.
Recognize people and team for outstanding impact.
Provide strong technical vision for your team and ensure consistent delivery on objectives.

Benefits

medical, dental and vision insurance
a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution
paid parental leave
short and long-term disability coverage
basic life insurance
10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees
1 paid day off for employee’s birthday, paid year-end holiday shutdown, and 4 paid days off for personal wellness determined by Cisco
16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year, accrued at rate of 4.92 hours per pay period for full-time employees (non-exempt employees)
flexible vacation time off program (exempt employees)
80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter, and up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward from one calendar year to the next
Additional paid time away may be requested to deal with critical or emergency issues for family members
Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer
annual bonuses (for non-sales roles)
performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary (for sales roles)