Software Engineering Lead

🔥 16 hours ago

🇨🇷 Costa Rica – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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Cisco

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1984

🔧 Hardware

🔐 Security

🏢 Enterprise

Hardware • Security • Enterprise

Cisco is a multinational technology company that provides networking hardware, software, and services to enterprises, service providers, and governments. It builds routers, switches, optical transceivers, programmable silicon, and edge computing platforms, and offers security, collaboration (Webex), observability, and AI-enabled software and support services to help organizations design, operate, and secure large-scale networks and data centers. Cisco also delivers professional services, training, and cloud-managed solutions to support digital transformation and AI-ready infrastructure.

📋 Description

• Design and develop high-quality software and bring features from technical design through delivery • Create technical design documentation for the team and contribute to user documentation for end users • Troubleshoot and resolve software issues during development and in production • Collaborate across teams and share technical knowledge with other engineers • Improve the quality, scalability, security, and reliability of software • Improve the software development lifecycle and advance protocols in agile engineering • Lead the design and delivery of high-quality security features • Identify opportunities for products to work together and create greater value for customers • Consider market needs, product adoption, and competition when making design decisions and tracking related metrics • Review and test code to identify problems and improve scalability, speed, and reliability • Resolve errors, monitor production systems, identify risks, and escalate issues when needed • Support on-call escalations • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to capture requirements, estimate timelines, track milestones, and deliver projects meeting user requirements • Share knowledge through presentations, documentation, blogs, newsletters, and other forums

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree with 8+ years of related experience, Master’s degree with 3+ years of related experience, or PhD with 1+ year of related experience • Experience developing production software, including writing clean, functional code and unit tests • Experience troubleshooting and resolving software issues in development and production environments • Experience with code reviews, testing, and software engineering practices focused on scalability, reliability, and quality • Experience creating technical designs and leading software features from design through delivery • Background leading software projects or features through implementation, testing, and delivery (preferred) • Preferably experience building security products or developer-facing security tooling • Knowledge of production monitoring, incident response, postmortems, and root cause analysis • Familiarity with secure software development practices and threat modeling • Ability to use AI/ML or generative AI to solve security problems • Familiarity with LLMs, AI agents, embeddings, or other machine-learning capabilities and their integration with production systems • Familiarity with vulnerability analysis, and vulnerability management tools and processes • Familiarity with software engineering roadmaps and integrating capabilities across products • Proven collaboration with Product Management, Design, Security, and engineering teams • Ability to mentor engineers and share technical knowledge