Senior Security Engineer

🕒 5 days ago

🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

💵 $167.7k - $245.2k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

👮‍♂️ Cybersecurity / Security Engineer

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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

• Shape how Cisco designs, reviews, and verifies security across its network-device portfolio • Create threat models and review device architectures and code to identify root weaknesses • Translate recurring weakness classes into secure patterns and reusable engineering controls • Test security claims after implementation using reproducible evidence • Identify what works and where security gaps remain • Collaborate with engineers across functions, cultures, and geographies • Use AI-enabled workflows to improve security delivery • Help protect Cisco routers, switches, access points, wireless LAN controllers, campus gateways, industrial IoT devices, cameras, and sensors

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related technical field with 7 years of related experience; or a master's degree with 4 years; or a PhD with 1 year • CSSLP certification preferably complemented • Experience delivering threat models, security reviews, and reusable controls or patterns • Experience creating test cases and reproducible evidence to verify implemented behavior • Experience assessing and improving embedded or IoT network-device security across hardware, firmware, and the device lifecycle • C/C++ code review experience • Device security testing experience • Security tooling experience in Python or a comparable language • Experience using CWE hardware and software weakness hierarchies • Experience applying MITRE EMB3D, OWASP IoT guidance, or comparable device-security frameworks • Preferred: experience collaborating across functions, cultures, and geographies in large matrix organizations • Preferred: mentoring and coordinated delivery experience • Preferred: systems thinking and risk-exposure prioritization • Preferred: experience building agentic workflows integrating models, tools, and engineering data • Preferred: experience with evaluations, human review, protected inputs, and adapting workflows as model capabilities change • Preferred: experience developing static-analysis rules, secure APIs or wrappers, or CI/CD guardrails • Preferred: experience evaluating precision, coverage, and adoption across repositories or product families

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, dental and vision insurance • 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution • Paid parental leave • Short- and long-term disability coverage • Basic life insurance • Grants of Cisco restricted stock units, subject to eligibility and continued employment • 10 paid holidays per full calendar year • 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees • 1 paid day off for employee’s birthday • Paid year-end holiday shutdown • 4 paid days off for personal wellness • 16 days of paid vacation per full calendar year for non-exempt employees • Flexible vacation time off program with no defined limit for eligible exempt employees • 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter • Up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward • Additional paid time away for critical or emergency family issues • Optional 10 paid volunteer days per full calendar year • Annual bonuses for non-sales roles, subject to Cisco’s policies • Performance-based incentive pay for employees on sales plans

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