# Technical Leader

**Company**: Cisco
**Location**: San Francisco, California
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $214,100.00 to $309,800.00
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Join Cisco as a Technical Leader on the team building foundational identity, authentication, and governance infrastructure for non-human callers and autonomous agents. You will define and build core agentic identity capabilities across cloud, on-premises, and hybrid architectures, and lead technical strategy from initial concept through production deployment.

Responsibilities:

- Architect and Build Core Capabilities: Design and implement scalable identity and access management frameworks for AI agents

- Deliver Developer Tooling & APIs: Build reusable APIs, SDKs, CLI tools, and integration patterns

- Drive Cross-Functional Alignment: Partner with Security, AI Platform, Product, and Cloud Operations teams

- Lead Technical Excellence: Set architectural direction, conduct design and code reviews, establish engineering standards

- Deliver Production MVPs: Rapidly prototype solutions for ambiguous identity and security problems

Minimum Qualifications:

- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field with 12+ years of software engineering experience

- 10+ years of experience designing and building distributed systems, backend services, or security platforms

- 5+ years of experience implementing enterprise identity, authentication, or access protocols

- 4+ years of experience with containerization technologies and at least one major cloud platform

- 3+ years of experience with security engineering principles

Preferred Qualifications:

- Experience designing or securing AI-adjacent architectures

- Deep technical expertise developing multi-threaded, high-throughput server-side applications

- Familiarity with AI-specific security risks

- Experience contributing to industry standards bodies or presenting at technical industry conferences

Benefits:

- Medical, dental and vision insurance

- 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution

- Paid parental leave

- Short and long-term disability coverage

- Basic life insurance

- Paid time away

## Skills

### Required
- Cloud
- Identity and Access Management
- Security
- AI
- Containerization
- Distributed Systems

### Nice to have
- AI-adjacent architectures
- Multi-threaded server-side applications
- AI-specific security risks
- Industry standards bodies

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