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Base Salary
$214k - $310k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and implement scalable identity and access management frameworks for AI agents, including token exchange, credential brokering, workload identity, and delegated access.
- Build reusable APIs, SDKs, CLI tools, and MCP-based integration patterns for platform and product teams.
- Partner with Security, AI Platform, Product, and Cloud Operations teams to align identity architecture with operational and customer requirements.
- Set architectural direction, conduct design and code reviews, establish engineering standards, and mentor engineering talent.
- Prototype solutions for ambiguous identity and security problems and evolve validated solutions into scalable production services.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field with 12+ years of software engineering experience, or a master’s degree with 8+ years of relevant experience.
- 10+ years of experience designing and building distributed systems, backend services, or security platforms in production environments.
- 5+ years of experience implementing enterprise identity, authentication, or access protocols such as OAuth 2.0/2.1, OIDC, SAML, SCIM, LDAP, SPIFFE, or mTLS.
- 4+ years of experience with Docker, containerd, or Kubernetes and at least one of AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- 3+ years of experience with security engineering principles including threat modeling, attack-path analysis, or security architecture reviews.
- Preferred qualifications include AI-adjacent architecture or agentic workflow security, multi-threaded high-throughput server-side development in Go, C/C++, or Java on Linux, AI-specific security risk expertise, standards-body participation, and device trust or hardware-backed identity experience.
Benefits
- Starting salary range is $214,100.00 to $309,800.00, excluding incentive compensation, equity, and benefits.
- Benefits may include medical, dental, vision, 401(k) matching, paid parental leave, disability coverage, basic life insurance, paid holidays, vacation or flexible time off, sick time, wellness days, birthday leave, year-end shutdown, family emergency leave, and volunteer time.
- Eligible employees may receive Cisco restricted stock units and annual bonuses subject to Cisco policies.
About Cisco
Cisco designs and sells networking, security, and collaboration platforms for enterprises, service providers, and governments, spanning routers and switches, Wi‑Fi, firewalls, zero‑trust, observability, and cloud-managed IT (Meraki) plus Webex. Its business model mixes hardware, software subscriptions, and support/consulting services. Founded in 1984 and headquartered in San Jose, California, Cisco is a public company traded on Nasdaq and serves customers across data centers, campuses, and service provider networks.