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Base Salary
$139k - $204k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead advanced penetration-testing engagements across on-premises and cloud application portfolios.
- Create sophisticated attack plans to identify vulnerabilities and provide detailed remediation guidance to development teams.
- Build and operate agentic AI workflows to scale security testing across complex system architectures.
- Make risk-based security decisions and promote a proactive security culture.
- Develop and maintain custom security tooling.
- Collaborate with engineering teams to improve long-term security maturity and mentor team members.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree plus 7 years of related experience, master’s degree plus 4 years, or PhD plus 1 year in application-level penetration testing.
- Offensive security experience spanning web applications, mobile applications, networks, and distributed systems.
- Technical understanding of common vulnerabilities, attack vectors, and remediation strategies.
- Experience with AWS and GCP.
- Ability to develop and maintain custom tooling using Python or Bash.
- Preferred: security research publications, CVEs, open-source projects, or bug-bounty recognition.
- Preferred: experience with C++, JavaScript, Python, Go, Splunk, or similar large-scale data platforms.
- Preferred: experience building cross-functional engineering relationships, mentoring team members, and providing constructive technical feedback.
Benefits
- Remote role.
- Starting salary range of $139,300.00 to $203,600.00 for U.S. and/or Canada locations, excluding incentive compensation, equity, and benefits.
- Benefits may include medical, dental, vision insurance, a 401(k) with Cisco matching, paid parental leave, disability coverage, basic life insurance, and restricted stock units.
- Paid time off includes holidays, vacation or flexible vacation, sick time, wellness days, birthday leave, year-end shutdown, and additional family emergency leave.
- Optional 10 paid volunteer days per full calendar year.
- Eligible non-sales employees may earn annual bonuses subject to Cisco policies.
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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.