Lead AppSec Engineer Remote in the U.S. Available in 2 locations Available in 2 locations

Job Description

Job DescriptionApplications are accepted until further notice. NOTE: Job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received. This role can be performed from any location within the United States.

Meet the Team:As an Application Security Engineer at Cisco, you will be a key member of a team that prevents, finds, and fixes vulnerabilities in our products, services, and enterprise. You will partner with teams across the organization to perform architecture reviews, conduct code security reviews, and promote secure development practices. You will proactively seek opportunities to build security into development pipelines and collect the data needed to understand the security posture of our systems. Cisco’s Security Engineers drive change across the entire stack—from the UI and backend to device firmware.

By acting as a guardian of our customers’ networks and deployments, you will have a direct, immediate, and significant impact on our customers and the hundreds of millions of users who rely on our access points, switches, security appliances, cameras, and mobile device management solutions every day. At Cisco, we are passionate about building real products that our customers love!

We foster a positive environment by hiring, mentoring, and empowering inquisitive, effective, low-ego individuals, and by providing equal opportunities for all employees to thrive. With management’s support, we are always looking for ways to improve organizationally. Your Impact:Drive strategy for the security review function.

Design and implement solutions for integrating security services into our CI/CD pipelines, ensuring seamless and automated security checks throughout the development process. Lead security reviews for complex systems across multiple Cisco business units. Collaborate closely with engineers and leaders to prioritize and remediate vulnerabilities, providing guidance and recommendations for swift and effective resolution.

Partner with software engineers across product teams to enhance the security posture of our cloud technologies, refining deployment practices to establish and maintain robust security standards. Minimum Qualifications:Can read and write code in Ruby or Python and enjoy learning new programming languages.

Thrive in finding and helping address security problems such as authentication, authorization, and cryptography. Experience in leading cross-functional projects. Preferred Qualifications:Experience with enterprise cloud solutions and serverless applications.

A BS/MS/Ph. D. in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Security, Security Engineering, or a STEM field.

Experience using source-level debuggers, hardware/JTAG debuggers, network protocol analyzers, or logic analyzers to diagnose problems at all layers of the system. Cisco’s Security Engineers affect change across the entire stack, from the UI and backend. By acting as a guardian of our customers’ networks and deployments, you will have a direct, immediate, and significant impact on our customers and the hundreds of millions of users who rely on our access points, switches, security appliances, cameras, and mobile device management solutions every single day.

Why Cisco? At Cisco, we’re revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era – and beyond. We’ve been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds.

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