Responsibilities:

• Develop and enhance runtime security features for a Windows-based endpoint agent.
• Design and implement systems-level endpoint security and monitoring capabilities using Go, C, and C++.
• Participate in architecture, design, and implementation discussions with senior engineers and architects.
• Develop software using Windows system programming interfaces, including Win32 APIs, File I/O, and Winsock.
• Investigate Windows platform behavior, APIs, and interactions between user-mode and kernel-mode components.
• Develop multi-threaded and multi-process applications and system-level software.
• Debug and resolve complex implementation issues and perform code reviews to improve software quality.
• Analyze and optimize feature performance to ensure efficient endpoint operation.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand runtime security requirements and translate them into reliable software solutions.
• Contribute to cross-platform security capabilities spanning Windows and Linux environments.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree with 5+ years of software development experience, or a Master's degree with 4+ years of software development experience.
• Experience with systems programming using C, or C++, including multi-threaded and multi-process application development.
• 2+ years' experience with operating system fundamentals, including threads, processes, file systems, networking, and inter-process communication.
• Experience with Windows system programming, including Win32 APIs, File I/O, Winsock, and familiarity with API hooking concepts.
• Experience debugging and troubleshooting complex software systems.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Understanding of Windows kernel concepts and how user-mode and kernel-mode components interact.
• Experience developing endpoint security, cybersecurity, or system-monitoring software.
• Experience with Windows kernel programming, driver development, or low-level Windows internals.
• Familiarity with malware detection techniques, endpoint protection technologies, or security monitoring concepts.
• Experience with network programming and security-related protocols.
• Experience implementing complex systems-level software features in production environments.
• Experience analyzing and optimizing performance for systems-level or endpoint software.
• Experience collaborating with senior engineers and architects on software architecture and technical design decisions.

Benefits:

• Salary range: $167,700.00 to $245,200.00
• 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.
• Paid time away, including 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.
• Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer.

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You will build testing capabilities designed to operate continuously and over extended periods of time, helping identify functional, performance, reliability, and integration issues before they affect production environments. You will develop automated testing approaches for software operating across operating systems, architectures, virtual machines, containers, and cloud environments.

You will work closely with software engineers throughout the development lifecycle to understand new capabilities, define appropriate testing strategies, identify defects, and improve overall product quality. Your work will help ensure the reliability and security of software providing workload visibility, network policy enforcement, container protection, and runtime security at scale.

Key Responsibilities:

• Define and develop testing strategies, frameworks, automation, and environments for software agents across Unix, Linux, and Windows platforms.
• Design automated tests that continuously evaluate software functionality, reliability, performance, and quality over extended periods of time.
• Build and maintain automated testing infrastructure for virtual machines, containers, and cloud-based environments.
• Develop testing approaches for software agents that collect workload and network information, enforce network policies, protect containerized environments, and provide runtime security capabilities.
• Integrate automated testing into the software development and product delivery lifecycle.
• Analyze test results, identify software defects and reliability issues, and collaborate with engineering teams to troubleshoot and resolve problems.
• Collaborate with software engineers and cross-functional teams from product conceptualization through production deployment.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field with 5+ years of relevant experience, or a Master's degree with 3+ years of relevant experience.
• Experience testing complex software products or systems.
• Experience with Kubernetes
• Experience developing or implementing automated software testing.
• Experience working across the software development lifecycle and shipping software products into production.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience designing and developing complex software testing frameworks, strategies, or infrastructure.
• Experience with OpenShift and Rancher.
• Experience with Terraform or other infrastructure automation technologies.
• Experience testing software across virtual machines, containers, cloud, or distributed environments.
• Knowledge of runtime security concepts.
• Knowledge of host-based firewall concepts.
• Experience programming in Golang.
• Experience with continuous testing, long-running reliability testing, or automated performance testing.
• Experience working in agile development environments and collaborating closely with software engineering teams.

The starting salary range posted for this position is $167,700.00 to $245,200.00 and reflects the projected salary range for new hires in this position in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including incentive compensation*, equity, or benefits.

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In this role, you’ll provide technical leadership and make architectural contributions in backend services that:

• Collect and process telemetry at scale from data sources in customer environments
• React to changes in environment and render policies in highly scalable manner to large number of enforcement points
• Implement API endpoints that need to respond with minimal latencies even when crunching large volumes of data
• Will be deployed in highly complex distributed system environments and involve failure modes unique to those environments

Minimum Qualifications:

• At least 9+ years' experience building software systems in one or more programming languages such as Go, C++, or Java
• Technical leadership experience in a software engineering environment
• Agile experience
• Bachelor's degree with 11+ years of related experience, Master's with 9+ years, PhD with 4+ years, or equivalent combination of education and experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• Proficiency in Computer Science foundational areas, including algorithms, systems, databases, performance engineering and security architecture
• Schema/Data modeling design experience
• Experience with large-scale event processing architectures
• Experience in systems programming and performance engineering
• Experience working with security architecture and database design
• Kubernetes experience
• Experience programming using cloud APIs for AWS, Azure, or GCP

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You will coordinate with multi-functional teams to accelerate work and ensure timely releases.

Your goal will be to streamline installation processes to reduce Proof-of-Concept timelines and improve customer satisfaction.

You will collaborate closely with development teams to build and maintain reliable software, using GitHub for version control and collaboration.

You will implement automation strategies to enhance release efficiency and reliability.

You will develop, support, and improve the platform using Golang and Kubernetes.

Minimum Qualifications

• You will have a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent industry experience.
• You will have 6+ years of experience in release management or a similar role within a software development environment.
• You will be experienced with GitHub Actions, Kubernetes or OpenShift, and a programming/scripting language such as Golang (preferred) or Python.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.
• Experience with Golang is strongly preferred.
• Certifications in Kubernetes, project management, or related fields.
• Solid release management experience for cloud service providers is highly preferred.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in diverse team environments.

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Your Impact: As a Software Engineer, you will establish relationships and collaborate effectively with your team. You will work on small-to-medium features from technical design through completion, applying your understanding of the software development lifecycle and agile engineering practices. Your responsibilities include:

• Collaborating with others on projects and working on small-to-medium features
• Applying understanding of software development lifecycle and agile engineering practices
• Participating in delivery of technical design features with guidance
• Writing functional clean code, unit tests, and E2E tests with some guidance
• Assisting in code reviews and addressing code review feedback
• Monitoring and triaging incident reports and participating in postmortems and potential on-call duties
• Estimating time to complete assignments and communicating status, blockers, and delays to the team

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's + 2 years of related experience OR Master's + 0 years of related experience
• Basic knowledge of development theories, principles, and concepts
• Exposure to current technologies through coursework or internship
• Experience in Javascript/Typescript, alongside experience in React, Angular, or other similar technology

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience developing using backend languages such as Go, Ruby on Rails, or nodeJs

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.

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As a Senior Software Engineer on the software agent team, you will be closely involved throughout the product development lifecycle, from analyzing and designing new capabilities through implementation, troubleshooting, and deployment into production environments.

You will develop and improve software agents that collect rich workload information, including network traffic and system activity such as processes, users, and file access.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, test, and improve high-performance software agents.
• Develop software that operates across Linux, Unix, and Windows environments and multiple processor architectures.
• Develop and enhance functionality for enforcing network policies on workloads from a central controller.
• Build capabilities that monitor and protect container-based deployments.
• Analyze complex software systems involving interactions between multiple processes and operating system kernels.
• Collaborate with software engineers, data engineers, data scientists, UX/UI engineers, technical support engineers, and other cross-functional partners.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree with 5+ years of software development experience, or a Master's degree with 4+ years of software development experience
• Experience with systems programming using C or C++, including multi-threaded and multi-process application development.
• Experience operating system fundamentals, including threads, processes, file systems, networking, and inter-process communication.
• Experience debugging and troubleshooting complex software systems.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with Windows systems programming.
• Experience with networking technologies and concepts.
• Experience with host-based firewalls.
• Experience with crash dump analysis.
• Experience programming in Golang.
• Experience developing software that interacts with operating system kernels or other low-level system components.
• Experience developing software for containerized, cloud, or distributed computing environments.

The starting salary range posted for this position is $167,700.00 to $245,200.00 and reflects the projected salary range for new hires in this position in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including incentive compensation, equity, or benefits.

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