{"id":1209537,"url":"https://alion.io/job/cisco-systems-software-engineering-technical-leader-15","title":"Software Engineering Technical Leader","company":{"id":90,"name":"Cisco Systems","domain":"cisco.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/cisco-systems","size_band":"5000+","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Workday","truth_index":{"grade":"A","score":93,"open_postings":165,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0.467,"repost_share":0.042,"time_to_fill_p50_days":14,"computed_at":"2026-09-26T05:45:00Z"}},"role":"Backend","role_family":"Backend","seniority":"lead","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"remote","remote_scope":"stated_countries","remote_scope_basis":"board_field","remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Heredia, Costa Rica","Costa Rica"],"countries":["CR"],"hiring_countries":["CR"],"hiring_countries_total":1,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":136000,"max_usd":356000,"period":"year","method":"global_role_cell_scaled_by_country","sample_n":1229},"experience_years_min":8,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Agile","optional":false},{"name":"AI Agents","optional":true},{"name":"Anomaly Detection","optional":true},{"name":"Embeddings","optional":true},{"name":"Threat Modeling","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-24T00:00:00Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-24","last_verified_at":"2026-09-27T02:36:57Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":3,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":3},"description":"MEET THE TEAM\nOur software engineering team develops software using Cisco’s Design Thinking Principles, with simplification and Security at its core. We use secure coding practices, protect user privacy, and follow software development best practices. We are looking for an experienced engineer who enjoys solving complex security problems through automation, scalable software, and strong engineering practices.\nWe partner closely with Design, Product Management, and other teams to create solutions for our customers. Together, we bring new insights to product innovation and continuously improve how we build software for our customers!\nYOUR IMPACT\nIn this role, you will design and develop high-quality software and help bring features from technical design through delivery. You will create technical design documentation for the team and contribute to user documentation for end users.\nYou will troubleshoot and resolve software issues during development and in production. You will collaborate across teams, share technical knowledge with other engineers, and help improve the quality, scalability, security, and reliability of our software.\nRESPONSIBILITIES\nImprove the software development lifecycle and advance protocols in agile engineering.\nLead the design and delivery of high-quality security features that improve our products and services.\nIdentify opportunities for products to work together and create greater value for customers.\nConsider market needs, product adoption, and competition when making design decisions and tracking related metrics.\nReview and test code to identify problems and improve scalability, speed, and reliability.\nDevelop technical design documentation for the team and contribute to user documentation for end users.\nResolve errors, monitor production systems, identify risks, and escalate issues when needed. You may also support on-call escalations.\nCollaborate with cross-functional teams to capture requirements, estimate timelines, track milestones, and deliver projects that meet user requirements.\nShare knowledge across teams through presentations, documentation, blogs, newsletters, and other forums.\nMINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS\nBachelor’s degree with 8+ years of related experience, Master’s degree with 3+ years of related experience, or PhD with 1+ year of related experience.\nExperience developing production software, including writing clean, functional code and unit tests.\nExperience troubleshooting and resolving software issues in development and production environments.\nExperience with code reviews, testing, and software engineering practices focused on scalability, reliability, and quality.\nExperience creating technical designs and leading software features from design through delivery.\nPREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS\nBackground leading software projects or features through implementation, testing, and delivery, and preferably experience building security products or developer-facing security tooling.\nKnowledge of production monitoring, incident response, postmortems, and root cause analysis.\nFamiliarity with secure software development practices and threat modeling.\nAbility to use AI/ML or generative AI to solve security problems, such as automated threat detection, alert triage, security investigation, anomaly detection, or security workflow automation. Familiarity with LLMs, AI agents, embeddings, or other- machine-learning capabilities and their integration with production systems. Familiarity with vulnerability analysis, and vulnerability management tools and processes. Familiarity with software engineering roadmaps and integrating capabilities across products.\nProven collaboration with Product Management, Design, Security, and engineering teams. Ability to mentor engineers and share technical knowledge.\nWhy Cisco?\nAt 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. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint.\nFueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you’ll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. 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