Description
Job Overview
As a Junior Software Engineer in the Security Foundations Engineering team at Cisco, you will contribute to building, testing, and maintaining core security components to support secure and reliable product functionality. You will deliver well-defined features and improvements, write clean and secure code, and assist in solving product and production issues.
Responsibilities
- Contribute to building, testing, and maintaining core security components
- Deliver well-defined features and improvements
- Write clean and secure code
- Assist in solving product and production issues
- Participate in on-call rotations and support operational tasks
- Collaborate with senior engineers and other teams to grow your skills and take on increasing responsibility over time
Requirements
- Master's degree or bachelor's degree plus 1-2 years of related experience
- Experience delivering and maintaining production software in Go and/or C++
- Understanding of software design, debugging, testing, and secure coding principles
- Familiarity with Unix/Linux (including shell scripting), networking concepts, and cybersecurity fundamentals
- Ability to solve technical issues methodically and learn unfamiliar parts of a system
- Willingness to adopt and apply GenAI tools across software engineering workflows
- Growth mindset with a strong desire to learn, try new technologies, and take on new challenges
- Strong verbal and written English communication skills
Preferred Qualifications
- Exposure to cloud infrastructure across multiple cloud service providers and familiarity with DevOps practices
- Basic knowledge of containerization technologies and container orchestration with Kubernetes
- Experience with automation tools like Terraform for infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD pipeline management
- Understanding of cybersecurity concepts, including secrets management, auditing, cryptography, and compliance
- Familiarity with observability, monitoring, and logging tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and Splunk
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