Cisco
Principal Software Engineer
$241K–$417K
San Jose, California, US · Hybrid · Principal · Full-time · Posted Sep 30, 2026
- Experience
- Bachelors + 15 years of related experience, or Masters + 12 years of related experience, or PhD + 8 years of related experience, or equivalent related work experience.
- Education
- Bachelors, Masters, or PhD; or equivalent related work experience.
About the job
Leads the architecture, development, delivery, and operation of secure cloud products and services for enterprise-scale security operations.
What you'll do
- Translate security and operational needs into scalable architectures, technical designs, APIs, integrations, and implementation plans.
- Build and operate production software using secure development, threat modeling, automated testing, CI/CD, and production-readiness practices.
- Partner across teams to address security, data ingestion, distributed systems, reliability, and performance challenges; mentor engineers.
What they ask for
- Prior experience designing and delivering secure, enterprise-scale products or platforms.
- Software development background including API design, distributed systems, data stores, integrations, automated testing, and production-quality code.
- Cloud product architecture experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP, including cloud-native services, infrastructure as code, high availability, scalability, resilience, observability, and secure multi-tenant design.
- Security engineering and operations experience across secure SDLC, cloud environments, and enterprise infrastructure, including threat modeling, vulnerability management, access controls, monitoring, incident response, and production support.
Nice to have
- Experience leading large-scale distributed systems and cloud products, especially in security analytics, SIEM, or SOC environments.
- Experience with multi-cloud security operations, full-SDLC ownership, infrastructure as code, containers or serverless, reliability engineering, data pipelines, or stream processing.
Pay
$250,600.00 to $362,600.00 USD base salary; $250,600.00 - $416,900.00 USD base salary; $241,400.00 - $371,000.00 USD base salary
Tools
AWS, Azure, GCP, CI/CD, SIEM, SOC
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