Software Engineer - Military Veterans

Application deadline expected to close on 10/22/2024

Cisco's Security Business Group is looking for a Senior Software Engineer who specializes in developing and maintaining secure networking solutions. The successful candidate will possess a strong background in secure coding principles, cryptographic protocols, Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), and Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting (AAA) frameworks. You will take the lead on designing robust security features, optimizing performance, and ensuring the highest standards of security for our customers.

Who We Are

Cisco Secure Firewall (CSF) is the flagship product of the Security Business Group (SBG). CSF integrates award-winning firewall services with industry-leading VPN capability and the world's best and most well-known Snort Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) engine into a single, high-performance offering. It is a very successful product and owns the market with threat-centric focus and market-differentiating features. Though we take excellent pride in being market leaders in threat security, we are constantly innovating and improving our solutions to address the constantly evolving threat landscape and changing data security paradigms so that our customers are always secure. We take our customers' trust in us seriously and go all the way to ensure we protect their data. Our team works on leading security and threat mitigation solutions that are hard-working, scalable and easily manageable.

What You'll Do

Work cross-functionally with software engineering, quality engineering, documentation, and release engineering organizations to contribute to Cisco's industry-leading secure-access, firewall, and VPN solutions. You will work with subject-matter guides in networking, security, software design, and secure coding to design and implement new features, support emerging protocols, algorithms and ciphers, and diagnose and fix customer issues. You'll be involved in all aspects of the software-development lifecycle, from design, to implementation, to dev-test, documentation and maintenance.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop security features for network products, with a focus on VPN implementations, PKI systems, and AAA protocols such as RADIUS.
• Participate in the development lifecycle from requirements analysis, architecture design, coding, testing, to productization.
• Collaborate with product management and other engineering teams to define innovative and scalable security solutions that address customer needs.
• Contribute to comprehensive documentation for system design, API interfaces, and user guides.
• Investigate and adopt sophisticated security technologies and methodologies to improve the product line.
• Participate in security audits and address vulnerabilities quickly and efficiently.

Who You'll Work With

Cisco's data-path security team is a dynamic and upbeat group of software engineers who are responsible for the systems that perform real-time processing of packets in Cisco's groundbreaking security offerings. You work with engineers with expertise in networking protocols like TCP/IP and TLS, operating systems like Linux, and programming languages like C, C++, and Python. We are at the epicenter of developing industry-leading solutions with the highest levels of performance, security and usability. Join us and be a part of this exciting, ground-breaking journey.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 2+ years of software development experience with a strong emphasis on network security
• 2+ years of hands on experience in networking concepts and protocols, including TCP/IP
• 2+ years experience programming large-scale software applications in C/C++ within a Linux/Unix environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• In-depth knowledge of computer security, particularly in areas such as encryption, VPN, PKI, and AAA
• Industry certifications (e.g., CCIE Security, CISSP)
• Prior experience with Cisco networking products, such as ASA, Firepower, or AnyConnect.
• Familiarity with network-management tools, application-traffic generators, packet tracers (like Wireshark and Fiddler), and tcpdump.
• Contributions to open-source security projects or active engagement in the security community.

Why Cisco Secure

We're global, we're adaptable, we're diverse, and our security portfolio is as extensive as it is groundbreaking. Have you heard of Threat, Detection & Response, Zero Trust by Duo, Common Services Engineering, or Cloud & Network Security? Those are only a few of our product teams! The only thing we're missing is YOU.

Join an enterprise security leader with a start-up culture, committed to driving innovation and giving you the opportunity to make an impact. We #InnovateToWin and we know we're better together, that's why we're dedicated to inclusivity, collaboration, and diversity in everything we do.

We're proud to be the Best Small and Mid-Size Enterprises Security Solution Cisco Secure continues to grow and evolve year after year with 100% of Fortune 100 Companies using our products, and we're excited to see the new heights we'll reach with your passion for security, your customer focus, and your desire to change things up!

There are so many amazing reasons to join Cisco. Learn more here !

Message to applicants applying to work in the U.S. and/or Canada:

When available, the salary range posted for this position reflects the projected hiring range for new hire, full-time salaries in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including equity or benefits. For non-sales roles the hiring ranges reflect base salary only; employees are also eligible to receive annual bonuses. Hiring ranges for sales positions include base and incentive compensation target. Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location and additional factors, including but not limited to skillset, experience, and relevant education, certifications, or training. Applicants may not be eligible for the full salary range based on their U.S. or Canada hiring location. The recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.

U.S. employees have access to quality medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, short and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance and numerous wellbeing offerings. Employees receive up to twelve paid holidays per calendar year, which includes one floating holiday, plus a day off for their birthday. Employees accrue up to 20 days of Paid Time Off (PTO) each year and have access to paid time away to deal with critical or emergency issues without tapping into their PTO. We offer additional paid time to volunteer and give back to the community. Employees are also able to purchase company stock through our Employee Stock Purchase Program.

Employees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, which is split between quota and non-quota components. For quota-based incentive pay, Cisco typically pays as follows:

.75% of incentive target for each 1% of revenue attainment up to 50% of quota;

1.5% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 50% and 75%;

1% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 75% and 100%; and once performance exceeds 100% attainment, incentive rates are at or above 1% for each 1% of attainment with no cap on incentive compensation.

For non-quota-based sales performance elements such as strategic sales objectives, Cisco may pay up to 125% of target. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid.