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Principal Software Engineer | CASB, AVC

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1 month ago
Bengaluru, IndiaStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Define the architecture and roadmap for CASB and AVC capabilities, including application discovery, application controls, SaaS tenant controls, DLP, and malware scanning.
  • Lead AI-assisted application discovery and classification and broader AI adoption across the security product and engineering lifecycle.
  • Own the technical strategy for the CASI application-intelligence platform, including data quality, confidence scoring, human validation, model monitoring, update speed, and scaling.
  • Guide feature designs and technical foundations for security, privacy, performance, scalability, resilience, observability, quality, troubleshooting, and cost efficiency.
  • Translate customer needs, emerging threats, and product priorities into scalable capabilities with product, security research, architecture, and engineering teams.
  • Provide cross-team technical leadership, resolve complex architectural issues, mentor experienced engineers, and raise engineering standards.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • Typically 12+ years of software engineering experience, including architecture and technical leadership across multiple teams.
  • Experience designing and operating large-scale, cloud-native distributed systems.
  • Experience architecting or integrating AI or machine-learning capabilities into production products or engineering workflows.
  • Strong background in cloud-delivered web, SaaS, network, or data security, including policy enforcement and data protection.
  • Ability to remain hands-on while influencing senior stakeholders, guiding complex designs, and mentoring experienced engineers.
  • Preferred: master’s degree or PhD in computer science, cybersecurity, machine learning, or a related field.
  • Preferred: experience with CASB, AVC, SSE/SASE, Secure Web Gateway, DLP, malware protection, SaaS tenant security, application intelligence, high-volume telemetry, AI-based classification, human-in-the-loop workflows, model evaluation, monitoring, MLOps, and global multi-tenant AWS services.

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10,000+ employees

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.

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