# Senior Director of Engineering **Company**: Cisco **Location**: Austin, Texas **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Salary**: $267,200.00 to $337,900.00 **Category**: Engineering **Industry**: Technology **Apply**: https://cisco.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Cisco_Careers/job/Austin-Texas-US/Senior-Director---Software-Engineering--Cisco-Duo-_2031193?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/job/senior-director-of-engineering-ef36321a-117/ ## Description As Senior Director of Engineering, you will lead the engineering team responsible for Duo, Cisco's security-first identity and access management product. Duo helps organisations make access safer without making work harder. It brings together authentication, single sign-on, device trust, and adaptive access controls to verify who is connecting, from which device, and under what conditions. Your Impact: - Align technical priorities and architecture across these areas while strengthening operational practices and reliability across the stack. - Your work will help protect organisations and critical infrastructure around the world by delivering secure, easy-to-use identity capabilities. - Guide teams on evolving engineering practices to build and operate high-quality software at scale. - Partner closely with Product and Design and collaborate with other Cisco product teams to create integrated customer experiences. - Develop engineering leaders and build strong, empowered teams that translate product strategy into resilient, scalable, and reliable services. - Set technical direction and operational strategy for a flagship product at the intersection of identity, security, and everyday user experience. Minimum Qualifications: - 15+ years of software engineering experience, including significant experience leading multi-team engineering organisations and developing engineering managers. - Proven technical leadership experience in identity and access management (IAM), cybersecurity, enterprise cloud security, or a closely related enterprise software domain. - Experience leading distributed engineering organisations that develop, scale, and operate high-availability customer-facing software products or cloud services. - Proven track record of delivering complex product capabilities from strategy through launch and continuous live operations, leveraging operational data, telemetry, and customer feedback to drive reliability and execution excellence. Preferred Qualifications: - Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline. - Demonstrated ability to attract, hire, and retain top-tier engineering talent and cultivate an inclusive environment grounded in accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement. - Experience guiding architecture for secure, highly available SaaS or distributed systems. - Experience building software across public cloud, on-premises, and mobile environments. - Fluency with modern authentication and identity standards, including SAML, OIDC, OAuth, and FIDO2/WebAuthn. - Proven success evolving an engineering organisation’s structure, operating model, or development methodologies while sustaining continuous delivery, high team engagement, and positive engineering culture. - Strong ability to translate complex architectural tradeoffs, reliability risks, and security investments into strategic business terms for executive leadership. - Proven experience collaborating closely with Product Management, User Experience/Design, and other cross-functional partners to shape product roadmaps and deliver exceptional user experiences. 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 - 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 - Non-exempt employees receive 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year - Exempt employees participate in Cisco’s flexible vacation time off program - 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter - Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer For more fresh new jobs, check out [yubhub.co](https://yubhub.co/). ## Skills ### Required - software engineering - identity and access management - cybersecurity - enterprise cloud security ### Nice to have - Computer Science - Computer Engineering - SAML - OIDC - OAuth - FIDO2/WebAuthn --- Source: [Apply at cisco.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com](https://cisco.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Cisco_Careers/job/Austin-Texas-US/Senior-Director---Software-Engineering--Cisco-Duo-_2031193?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)