1 month ago
Base Salary
$152k - $222k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the architecture and technical direction for core SSO and identity-broker capabilities.
- Design and develop secure, scalable SSO services, identity-broker capabilities, and Python APIs.
- Define authentication, federation, identity orchestration, and cross-product integration patterns.
- Convert business and technical needs into specifications, architecture designs, acceptance criteria, and implementation plans.
- Document key technical decisions through Architecture Decision Records and maintain architectural alignment during implementation.
- Establish effective AI-assisted development practices across the software development lifecycle.
- Collaborate with engineering squads, product management, and platform architecture teams to guide initiatives from design through delivery.
- Raise engineering standards through design reviews, code reviews, technical guidance, and mentorship.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree and 8+ years of related experience, master’s degree and 6+ years, or PhD and 3+ years.
- Technical leadership experience designing and delivering distributed systems, microservices, or enterprise cloud services.
- Professional experience building backend services and APIs with Python, including asynchronous programming patterns.
- Experience designing or building identity, authentication, authorization, or security capabilities.
- Experience using AI-assisted development tools while maintaining security, correctness, and maintainability standards.
- Preferred experience leading complex initiatives across multiple engineering or product teams.
- Preferred knowledge of SAML, OpenID Connect, OAuth 2.0, SCIM, or WS-Federation.
- Preferred experience building REST APIs with OpenAPI specifications and code-generation workflows.
- Preferred experience with AWS, SQL, Redis, event-driven architectures, React, and TypeScript.
- Preferred experience with spec-driven development, Architecture Decision Records, and software design standards.
Benefits
- Preferred work locations are Ann Arbor, Michigan, or Austin, Texas; remote candidates will be considered.
- U.S. benefits may include medical, dental, and vision insurance; a 401(k) with Cisco matching; paid parental leave; disability coverage; and basic life insurance.
- Paid time off includes holidays, personal wellness days, birthday leave, year-end shutdown, vacation or flexible vacation, sick time, and family emergency leave, subject to applicable policies.
- Employees may receive volunteer time and may be eligible for Cisco restricted stock units and annual bonuses under applicable 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.