Senior Software Engineer, Control Plane (Go) - Hypershield
About The Position
Join Cisco’s Cisco Hypershield team, where we are building the next generation of distributed security infrastructure for modern networking environments. Within Hypershield, the Smart Switch team develops foundational security capabilities that extend across multiple Cisco platforms, including switching, routing, and firewall systems. This team is responsible for core control plane software that enables policy configuration, deployment workflows, logging, visibility, and feature orchestration across a shared security architecture used by products spanning Cisco systems networking portfolios, including Nexus, Catalyst, and emerging smart switch platforms. The work here is highly foundational: features built by this team influence security behavior across multiple Cisco networking products and future infrastructure platforms.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree + 8 years of related software engineering experience, or Master's + 6 years of related experience, or PhD + 3 years of related experience.
- 5+ years of development experience in languages such as Go, or C++
- Experience developing software in Linux environments
- Experience developing software for networking or network infrastructure products, with knowledge of networking concepts such as TCP/IP, VLANs, VRFs, VXLAN, network topology, routing/switching, or control plane/data plane interactions.
Nice To Haves
- 5+ years of professional Go development experience
- Experience designing and developing APIs using REST, gRPC, or Protocol Buffers
- Experience working with Kubernetes-based applications, including developing, deploying, debugging, or operating software running in Kubernetes environments
- Familiarity with Kubernetes concepts such as CRDs, Kubernetes APIs, controllers, RBAC, or secrets management
- Experience developing software for switching, routing, firewall, or other network infrastructure platforms.
- Familiarity with network configuration and management technologies such as YANG, NETCONF, telemetry, or similar infrastructure configuration frameworks.
- Experience working effectively in a remote or distributed team environment
Responsibilities
- Design and develop control plane features for network security products using Go in Linux-based environments
- Build and maintain APIs and cloud-based configuration services that translate network and security policy into configurations consumed by distributed networking infrastructure.
- Develop business logic for network configuration and orchestration, working with networking concepts such as VLANs, VRFs, VXLAN, network topology, and TCP/IP-based communication.
- Build software that manages and distributes configuration across networking devices and systems, with an understanding of how control-plane decisions interact with the underlying data plane.
- Work with network configuration models and interfaces, including YANG or similar standards used to configure and manage network infrastructure.
- Integrate third-party components and internal services into Cisco security platforms
- Collaborate with data plane and platform engineering teams to deliver end-to-end feature functionality
- Contribute to architecture discussions, feature design, and technical execution for new security capabilities
- Ability to collaborate effectively with peers across a geographically distributed team, with regular overlap during Pacific Time (PST/ PDT) business hours.
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)
- flexible vacation time off program (exempt)
- 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 (for sales roles)
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
