# Senior Software Engineer - Identity Platform

**Company**: Cisco
**Location**: Ann Arbor, MI
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $151,600.00 - $222,400.00
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

You will join Cisco's Identity Engineering organization, which is building a unified foundation for connecting, managing, and securing identity across Cisco products and diverse enterprise identity systems.

In this hands-on individual-contributor role, you will set the technical direction for the authentication and federation foundation of Cisco's identity platform.

Key responsibilities include:

- Architecture & Technical Strategy: Own the architecture and technical direction for core SSO and identity-broker capabilities.

- Identity Platform Engineering & SSO: Lead the design and development of secure, scalable SSO services, identity-broker capabilities, and APIs using Python.

- Spec-Driven Execution: Turn ambiguous business and technical needs into clear specifications, architectural designs, acceptance criteria, and executable plans.

- AI-Native Development: Establish effective practices for using AI-assisted development throughout the software development lifecycle.

- Cross-Functional Influence: Serve as a technical bridge among engineering squads, product management, and platform architecture teams.

- Technical Leadership & Mentorship: Raise engineering standards through design reviews, code reviews, technical guidance, and mentorship.

The team works on authentication, federation, and identity orchestration across heterogeneous systems, solving complex distributed-systems and cross-product integration challenges.

You will be based in Ann Arbor, MI or Austin, TX, with remote work options available.

The starting salary range for this position is $151,600.00 to $222,400.00, reflecting the projected salary range for new hires in this position in U.S. and/or Canada locations.

Benefits 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.

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- distributed systems
- microservices
- enterprise cloud services
- identity
- authentication
- authorization
- security
- AI-assisted development

### Nice to have
- SAML
- OpenID Connect
- OAuth 2.0
- SCIM
- WS-Federation
- REST APIs
- OpenAPI specifications
- AWS
- SQL
- Redis
- event-driven architectures
- React
- TypeScript

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