Cisco

Leader, Software Engineering

Cisco$214K — $309K *
Enterprise Technology
11 - 15 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in engineering or computer science.
  • 12+ years of overall experience, including 2+ years in people management.
  • Familiarity with container orchestration (AWS ECS/EKS) and event-driven architectures (Kafka).
  • Proficient in programming languages such as Python and/or Go with cloud platform experience, preferably AWS.
  • Knowledge of modern software development practices like CI/CD and DevOps.

Responsibilities

  • Lead teams to design, develop, and deliver scalable applications.
  • Collaborate with teams and stakeholders to gather and fulfill business and technical requirements.
  • Foster strong working relationships within and outside the team.
  • Align team objectives with organizational goals and strategize action plans for challenges.
  • Act as a customer advocate and point of contact for specific clients.
  • Drive the team to resolve complex technical network problems.
  • Set and communicate clear goals and expectations for team performance.

Benefits

  • Work within a small, impactful team that develops critical microservices.
  • Engage in a collaborative environment with opportunities for cross-team partnerships.
  • Benefit from a strong technical vision that guides team success.
  • Recognition for individual and team achievements based on performance.
Full Job Description
The application window is expected to close on: 09/29/2026
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.

Responsibilites include:
  • 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


Minimum Qualifications

  • 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).


Preferred Qualifications

  • 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 interactions in a secure, scalable SaaS environment.


  • Deep working knowledge of observability stacks (e.g., Datadog, Splunk, Prometheus) and 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.

About Cisco

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Founded
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