# Leader, Software Engineering

The application window is expected to close on: 11/11/2026Meet The Team Cloud Security Engineering at Cisco drives the technology that's transforming the way customers secure their networks, and more importantly, their users. We're seeking a Senior Manager for our Software Engineering teams focusing on Software as a Service (SaaS) products. The individual will lead our dedicated engineers in designing, developing, testing, and deploying robust cloud-based software solutions. A successful candidate should have strong leadership skills, an extensive background in software engineering, a strategic attitude, and experience in people management. Your Impact As an Engineering Leader within the Control Plane organization, you will be a part of a team to help design, development, and operation of key microservices focused on cloud network experience, traffic optimization and insights related that our Umbrella and Cisco Secure Access products offer. This is a small team that does big things. Responsibilites include: Lead fast-paced teams of cisco cloud security to effectively Design, develop and deliver production quality applications that are highly scalable, supportable and maintainable.

- **Id**: 4044911
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/cisco-systems-leader-software-engineering-9>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Milpitas, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-10T23:30:41Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-10
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-10T23:30:41Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 8199
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Annual bonuses, Equity, Life insurance, Parental leave, Restricted stock units, Vision insurance
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Network Security, Unified Communications, Endpoint Security, Observability & APM

## Company

- **Id**: 90
- **Name**: Cisco Systems
- **Domain**: cisco.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/cisco-systems>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 84
- **Open postings**: 284
- **Ghost share**: 0.049
- **Stale share**: 0.475
- **Repost share**: 0.092
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 26
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 186900
- **Max**: 307800
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 307800

## Technologies

- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **Amazon ECS** — Optional: no
- **Amazon EKS** — Optional: no
- **Apache Kafka** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **Azure** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **GCP** — Optional: no
- **MySQL** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Redis** — Optional: no
- **Datadog** — Optional: yes
- **DLP** — Optional: yes
- **DNS** — Optional: yes
- **FedRAMP** — Optional: yes
- **GDPR** — Optional: yes
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: yes
- **Prometheus** — Optional: yes
- **SOC 2** — Optional: yes
- **Splunk** — Optional: yes
- **Zero Trust** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-10T23:30:41Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 1,384 · green card filings: 608; Filings 12m: 1384

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 26
- **Reasons**: conf:0, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T00:16:55Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 307800
- **Is top pay**: yes

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