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Leader, Software Engineering | Go/Python/Java, Microservices, CASB Domain | 12+ years,

Cisco is hiring a Leader, Software Engineering | Go/Python/Java, Microservices, CASB Domain | 12+ years, in Bengaluru, India. Level rates it ; you can apply on Cisco.

Level's read on this job

  • Works on AI ●●●○ is how Level rates this role: the daily work is on AI products, without building the model.
  • Tools and skills the posting cites include Go, Python and Java.
  • Level classifies it as a lead role.
  • Level lists 1,400+ other open roles at Cisco.

AI in this role

Lead a software engineering team to design and deliver AI-driven features and microservices for cloud security products.

GoPythonJavaAWSGoogle Cloud
microservicesdistributed-systemscloud-securitysoftware-architectureleadership

Meet the Team
Join our Security Business Group to design and deliver the AI-driven features of Cisco Secure Access product. You’ll work across multiple stacks and domains to build integrations and features that power the next generation of Cisco’s security platform. We have a highly scalable cloud product spread across 100+ data centre’s where we run our cloud security applications that operate at massive scale.
Your impact
As a Leader Software Engineering, you will:

  • Design and deliver both functional and non-functional product features using AI SDLC.

  • Mentor and guide engineers, promoting best practices.

  • Create a culture of execution excellence coupled with innovation AI first mindset.

  • Partner with cross-functional core stakeholders within both engineering, product management and field teams to lead the technology direction and facilitate key technical decision points.

  • Build and maintain scalable, reliable, and high-performance cloud services that support global enterprise users.

Minimum Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s in computer science or equivalent with 15+ years' experience in designing, analysing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.

  • Experience in building cloud delivered SaaS based security solutions.

  • Experience with Go, Java, Python.

  • Knowledge of AI tools, frameworks, or methodologies.

  • Proven skills in managing a high growth business and scaling engineering teams.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Passion for building scalable, reliable, and maintainable backend systems.

  • Experience with AWS/GCP and monitoring/observability tools, CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.

  • A collaborative, solution-oriented mindset and ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.

  • Strong engineering delivery and execution track record using agile process.

  • Sound technical depth - ability to go deep into technical architecture and design when needed to solve a complex problem.


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.

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.


Disclaimer

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How we rate this

Leader, Software Engineering | Go/Python/Java, Microservices, CASB Domain | 12+ years, at Cisco rates 65 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Works on AI (AI Level 3 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Works on AI. The daily work is on AI products, without building the model.

  1. ●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
  2. ●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
  3. ●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
  4. ●○○○ Little AI0 to 39

Levels come from how often the tools, models and workflows of the role are named in the posting itself. Read the description and count the AI tools, models and workflows it names.

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Skills and AI tools this role asks for

MicroservicesDistributed SystemsCloud SecuritySoftware ArchitectureLeadershipGoPythonJava

Questions you could be asked

  1. Tell me about a project where microservices was part of your work. What did you do?
  2. Tell me about a project where distributed systems was part of your work. What did you do?
  3. Tell me about a project where cloud security was part of your work. What did you do?
  4. Tell me about a project where software architecture was part of your work. What did you do?
  5. Tell me about a project where leadership was part of your work. What did you do?

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  • List these exact terms on your resume: Microservices, Distributed Systems, Cloud Security, Software Architecture, and Leadership. An applicant tracking system matches the wording, not the idea.
  • Attach one line of real, concrete experience to at least one of them. A tool named with nothing behind it rarely survives a human read.
  • Show where AI is part of your daily process, not a one-off project. This role expects it to be a running habit.

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