Application deadline is expected to close on July 25, 2025
Internet became a reality because of Cisco and its intelligent innovations in WAN engineering over multiple decades.

We are evolving our industry leading service rich SDWAN solution by building integrated multi-cloud and SASE solution for our customers. If you love the challenge of building a highly scalable intelligent distributed system, then please join the party. We are abstracting WAN infrastructure and programmatically building a highly flexible controller-based software defined solution to provide intent based networking. Our solutions provide secure connectivity to user & device from anywhere in the world to their favorite application running in cloud, on premise or as SaaS.

We give the opportunity to learn and innovate in a vast technology space of Routing, Security, Analytics, Policy, Telemetry, Distributed System, Machine learning and endless other areas. We strive to create an open and transparent culture where we embrace new ideas with open arms. Join us and be part of the high energy team, help transform and build intelligent internet.

Meet The Team

Our SDWAN Security Engineering team is responsible for a critical surface area in securing the SDWAN fabric that operates globally at a massive scale. You will work on various ground-breaking security technologies in Enterprise Routers connecting cloud infrastructure and applications. You will have the opportunity to work with leading-edge networking and security technologies like IPSEC, Certificates, Firewall, IPS/IDS, URLF and build integrated SASE with Cisco Umbrella.

Your impact

• Collaborate closely with Product Managers and Architects on roadmaps and priorities to build the next generation of SDWAN controller infrastructure.
• Design and architect IPsec solution that aids various deployment modes on Cisco's routing products.
• Design and optimize for scale, performance and improved user experience.
• Distill complex problems and propose simple, elegant solutions. Be responsible for the performance and results of engineering team.
• Understand & contribute to requirements. Write functional & design specifications, show-case technical leadership and drive high quality execution across teams.
• Contribute to product roadmap through innovations & cross-team discussions
• Mentor and guide junior team members in a player-coach model.
• Investigate and resolve complex customer issues. Have empathy and deep attention to detail.
• Help raise the quality bar to avoid customer issues in an agile and incremental model.

Minimum Qualifications

• 15+ years of engineering experience building multi-threaded, distributed backend systems
• 10 years experience in programming in C/C++/Python, development of algorithms using efficient data structures to come up with optimized code, debugging and troubleshooting under Linux environment
• 10 years hands-on experience developing IPsec technologies, data-plane packet processing, policy push and enforcement, and security features

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior Experience with data plane development for various Network Processors, Crypto, Stateful packet processing.
• Prior Experience working extensively with OpenSSL, Intel QAT and IPsec Open-Source software.
• Good knowledge in Network Security domain and deployments highly desirable
• Experience with OS, Db internals, search, filesystems, inter-process messaging, networking and Security concepts
• Cloud and container technologies experience is a plus

Why Cisco

#WeAreCisco where every individual brings their unique skills and perspectives together to pursue our purpose of powering an inclusive future for all.

Our passion is connection-we celebrate our employees' diverse set of backgrounds and focus on unlocking potential. Cisconians often experience one company, many careers where learning and development are encouraged and supported at every stage. Our technology, tools, and culture pioneered hybrid work trends, allowing all to not only give their best, but be their best.

We understand our outstanding opportunity to bring communities together and at the heart of that is our people. One-third of Cisconians collaborate in our 30 employee resource organizations, called Inclusive Communities, to connect, foster belonging, learn to be informed allies, and make a difference. Dedicated paid time off to volunteer-80 hours each year-allows us to give back to causes we are passionate about, and nearly 86% do!

Our purpose, driven by our people, is what makes us the worldwide leader in technology that powers the internet. Helping our customers reimagine their applications, secure their enterprise, transform their infrastructure, and meet their sustainability goals is what we do best. We ensure that every step we take is a step towards a more inclusive future for all. Take your next step and be you, with us!

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.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.

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