Software Engineer - CHG (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 + 5 years of related experience OR Masters + 3 years of related experience OR PhD + 0 years of designing, developing, and deploying enterprise software in production environments.
- 3+ years of experience developing, deploying, and managing large-scale cloud-native web applications and microservices using Golang, Terraform, and serverless technologies such as AWS Lambda, AppSync, and ECS/EKS
- 3+ years of experience using SQL (PostgreSQL) and NoSQL (DynamoDB) storage systems.
- 1+ year of experience building event-driven systems using message/streaming platforms such as Kafka, SQS, or SNS for asynchronous, service-to-service communication.
- Experience using AI/ML tools or APIs (e.g., LLM-based coding assistants, model APIs, ML-driven automation) to support software development workflows.
Nice To Haves
- Exposure to data structures and algorithms beyond the basics — e.g., graph traversal, recursive or hierarchical data modeling — through coursework, side projects, or production work.
- 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 peers and engineering interns, sharing best practices and supporting their growth.
- Contribute to system design and implementation to ensure high-quality, timely delivery.
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
- grants of Cisco restricted stock units
- 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 (for non-sales roles)
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
