Software Engineer

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Software Engineer

What You'll Do

The Cryptographic Services team is looking for a highly motivated Software Engineer to work on our team, providing development and support for custom applications behind Cisco's growing Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) and cryptographic services. As a member of our team you will develop and support various cryptographic applications for critical business functions across the company. We work with a wide variety of internal Cisco teams needing key management, certificate authority, software signing, and other cryptographic services. We are responsible for updating existing applications to meet new business requirements. We are looking for candidates who can help us transition from a legacy Development to Production processes to a full DevOps operating model. You will work with other developers and Information Security Engineers to provide code reviews, assist in application testing (quality and security), and could be called on to provide after-hours application support.

Who You'll Work With

We are a centralized group of architects, developers, engineers and project/program managers that specialize in building and delivering cryptographic key and certificate management capabilities to the company, as well as enabling the business to deliver enhanced services to Cisco's customers. From SSL to anti-counterfeit to software-signing to information rights management to product licensing, this group of highly hardworking and passionate individuals provide critical security services across the breadth of Cisco's internal and external functions.

Who You Are

You are an mid-career individual with the desire and initiative to expand your skills in a highly critical and sophisticated environment. You have real world experience in Linux environments and a track record of balancing multiple tasks.

Minimum Requirements:

• Experience working in a SCRUM Agile workflow.

• Excellent Programming and Debugging skills in Python

• Experience with Ansible and CI/CD build pipeline automation (Jenkins, Github, GitLab)

• Experience integrating with and developing RESTful web services

• Very comfortable working with Linux in a variety of distributions.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Good understanding and ability to use system scripting languages (bash, sh, etc)

• Programming and Debugging with C and C++

• Programming and Debugging with Java

• Understanding of asymmetric and symmetric cryptography (RSA, ECC, AES, etc)

• Excellent documentation skills

• Understanding of PKCS standards

• Knowledge of PKI uses for device and application authentication

• Experience with crypto libraries like openSSL, Bouncy Castle, etc.

• Knowledge of common web attacks (CSRF, SQL Injection, Javascript injection, etc) and knowledge of how they are mitigated

• Good understanding of network protocols (TCP, UDP, HTTP, TLS, etc)

• Provide application-specific knowledge transfer, training, & documentation

• Ability to work across cultures and time zones

• Experience using AI to enhance your productivity (WindSurf, Copilot, Cursor)

At Cisco, we're revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era - and beyond. We've been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint.

Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you'll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere.

We are Cisco, and our power starts with you.

Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location, market conditions, job-related skillset, experience, qualifications, education, certifications, and/or training. The full salary range for certain locations is listed below. For locations not listed below, the recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.

U.S. employees are offered benefits, subject to Cisco's plan eligibility rules, which include medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, paid parental leave, short and long-term disability coverage, and basic life insurance. Please see the Cisco careers site to discover more benefits and perks. Employees may be eligible to receive grants of Cisco restricted stock units, which vest following continued employment with Cisco for defined periods of time.

U.S. employees are eligible for paid time away as described below, subject to Cisco's policies:

• 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

• Non-exempt employees** receive 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year, accrued at rate of 4.92 hours per pay period for full-time employees

• Exempt employees participate in Cisco's flexible vacation time off program, which has no defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use (subject to availability and some business limitations)

• 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter, and up to 80 hours ofunused sick timecarried forwardfrom one calendar yearto the next

• Additional paid time away may be requested to deal with critical or emergency issues for family members

• Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer

For non-sales roles, employees are also eligible to earn annual bonuses subject to Cisco's policies.

Employees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, which is split between quota and non-quota components, subject to the applicable Cisco plan. 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 0% up to 125% of target. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid.

The applicable full salary ranges for this position, by specific state, are listed below:

New York City Metro Area:

Non-Metro New York state & Washington state:

* For quota-based sales roles on Cisco's sales plan, the ranges provided in this posting include base pay and sales target incentive compensation combined.

** Employees in Illinois, whether exempt or non-exempt, will participate in a unique time off program to meet local requirements.