Security Engineer

🔥 18 hours ago

⛰️ Colorado, Illinois, +2 more states – Remote

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💵 $139.3k - $203.6k / year

⏰ Full Time

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👮‍♂️ Cybersecurity / Security 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

• Lead advanced penetration-testing engagements • Serve as a critical line of defense for on-premises and cloud application portfolios • Craft sophisticated attack plans to identify vulnerabilities • Provide actionable, detailed remediation guidance to development teams • Build and operate agentic AI workflows to scale security testing • Increase testing coverage of complex system architectures • Make key risk-based security decisions • Champion a proactive security culture using human judgment and autonomous agents

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree plus 7 years of related experience, Master’s plus 4 years, or PhD plus 1 year in application-level penetration testing • Advanced proficiency in offensive security across web applications, mobile applications, networks, and distributed systems • Deep technical understanding of common vulnerabilities, attack vectors, and remediation strategies • Proven experience with AWS and GCP • Ability to develop and maintain custom tooling using Python or Bash • Active security-community contributions such as research publications, CVEs, open-source projects, or bug-bounty recognitions preferred • Strong proficiency in C++, Javascript, Python, or Go preferred • Experience with Splunk products or similar large-scale data platforms preferred • Ability to build cross-functional relationships with engineering teams preferred • Communication, mentoring, and constructive technical-feedback skills preferred

🏖️ 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 • Cisco restricted stock unit grants may be available • 10 paid holidays per full calendar year • 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees • Paid birthday day off • Paid year-end holiday shutdown • 4 paid personal wellness days • 16 days of paid vacation per full calendar year for non-exempt employees • Flexible vacation time off program for 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 policies • Incentive compensation for eligible sales-plan employees