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