Senior Full Stack Software Engineer, Management Plane

The application window is expected to close on: July 30, 2025.

NOTE: Job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received.

Meet the Team

As part of Cisco’s Infrastructure & Security Business Group, the Security Innovation team incubates ideas for the leading provider of network-security services, enabling the world to connect with confidence on any device, anywhere, anytime. Our product portfolio includes cloud-delivered firewalls, web proxies, Zero-Trust proxies, NaaS integrations, and other inspection services built as highly available , distributed systems. We are now engineering a security fabric that brings it all together— Cisco Hypershield . Passionate about the interconnected SASE world, we remain committed to delivering customer-focused security at the edge of technology.

Cisco Hypershield protects applications, devices, and data across public and private data centers, clouds, and physical locations. Designed with AI in mind from the start, Hypershield drives security outcomes beyond what humans can achieve alone.

Your Impact

Y ou’ll work across the full stack to design, build, and deliver features that help customers author and apply security policies with confidence. Partnering closely with Product, UX, and Backend Engineering, you’ll contribute to shaping our front-end experience, APIs, and integration with core Cisco platforms. Success in this role looks like:

• Delivering end-to-end features with a strong sense of ownership and independence
• Translating UX and PM requirements into performant, user-friendly UI and APIs
• Participating in agile ceremonies and cross-functional design discussions
• Collaborating with other Cisco platform teams to deliver integrated solutions
• Improving code quality, maintainability, and usability across the stack

Minimum Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional experience in developing enterprise-level frontend and backend solutions for Saas deployment
• Hands-on experience with TypeScript-based frontend frameworks (e.g., React, Vue, Angular)
• Experience with backend technologies such as Node.js, Python, or Go
• Experience building and integrating APIs (REST/gRPC) into production systems
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in building microservices for public cloud.
• Background in applications or network security, protocols and policies. ( e.g. firewalls, secure web gateways, and/or SASE/SSE)
• Prior experience architecting management planes, or components related to control, monitoring or deployment of security policies to assets
• Proven track record collaborating with UX/UI Design, Product, and Senior management Development team leadership, mentorship to other engineers on the team
• Secure development nuances token management, authentication, RBAC, etc.
• Knowledgeable of Cl/CD processes, containerization and deployment to public-cloud environments such as AWS.

Why Cisco?

At Cisco, we’re revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era – and beyond. We’ve been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint. Simply put – we power the future.

Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you’ll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere.

We are Cisco, and our power starts with you.