Senior Security Engineer

🔥 14 hours 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 • Demonstrate 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, reusable controls or patterns, test cases, and reproducible evidence • Experience assessing and improving embedded or IoT network-device security across hardware, firmware, and the device lifecycle • Experience with C/C++ code review • Experience with device security testing • Experience with security tooling 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: collaboration across functions, cultures, and geographies in large matrix organizations • Preferred: systems thinking and risk-exposure prioritization • Preferred: agentic workflows integrating models, tools, and engineering data • Preferred: static-analysis rules, secure APIs or wrappers, and CI/CD guardrails • Preferred: 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 • Cisco restricted stock unit grants may be available, subject to continued employment and vesting periods • 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 between calendar years • 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 • Opportunities to grow and build across Cisco’s worldwide network • AI-enabled workflows and opportunities to learn, share ideas, and expand security delivery

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