Senior Software Engineer - CHG (Hybrid)

Cisco•San Jose, CA

3d•$167,700 - $245,200•Hybrid

About The Position

We are Cisco Secure Common Services Platform Engineering, part of Cisco's Security Business Group, anchoring the platform that helps protect the world's most critical infrastructure by building the foundational building blocks powering every product across Cisco Security Cloud. Our services — Common Provisioning, Identity and Access Management, Common Objects Service, Posture Service, and Policy Service — give Cisco's security products a shared language for security objects, posture, and policy, moving the portfolio toward unified policy outcomes instead of fragmented, one-off integrations; when we ship a cleaner object model or a faster policy API, every downstream team that depends on it moves faster too. We're a small, close-knit engineering team working across Go microservices, event-driven Kafka pipelines, and Kubernetes/EKS infrastructure, where engineers own problems end-to-end, value transparency, and lean on each other rather than staying siloed. It's an exciting time to join: we're pushing AI/ML deeper into how we design, build, and ship the platform, while tackling real distributed-systems challenges — multi-tenant isolation, cycle-safe hierarchy resolution, high-throughput event distribution — that shape how securely and smoothly Cisco's entire security portfolio works together.

Requirements

Bachelors + 7 years of related experience OR Masters + 4 years of related experience OR PhD + 1 year of designing, developing, and deploying enterprise software in production environments.
5+ years developing, deploying, and managing large-scale cloud-native web applications and microservices using Golang, Terraform, and serverless technologies( AWS Lambda, AppSync, and ECS/EKS)
3+ years building event-driven systems using message/streaming platforms such as Kafka, SQS, or SNS for asynchronous, service-to-service communication.
Experience building and integrating AI/ML solutions into software workflows.

Nice To Haves

Experience implementing or reasoning about graph algorithms and hierarchical/recursive data structures in production systems
Experience with clean/layered service architectures (Handler → Service → Repository) and ORM frameworks such as GORM.
Experience taking difficult problems and translating them into solutions.
Ability to communicate clearly and summarize information to others concisely across cross-functional and distributed teams.

Responsibilities

Design and build core components of the Common Services Platform and/or Solutions to enable scalable, secure, and resilient cloud-native deployments.
Partner with Product Management to understand requirements, estimate level of effort, and contribute to sprint and quarterly planning.
Collaborate across teams to deliver end-to-end functionality while aligning on integration points and infrastructure.
Develop POCs and prototypes to explore new ideas, validate technical approaches, or test performance.
Mentor junior engineers, sharing best practices, reviewing designs, and supporting career growth.
Influence system design, contributing to and guiding implementation to ensure high-quality, timely delivery at scale.

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
Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer
annual bonuses (non-sales roles)
performance-based incentive pay (sales roles)