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# Senior Software Engineer in Test (Network Security, Performance), Hybrid, RTP, NC

- **Company:** Cisco Systems, Inc.
- **Location:** Durham, NC, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $139,300.0 - $203,600.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Testing (Software), Artificial Intelligence, Software Bug Management, C++ (Programming Language), Software as a Service, Cloud Computing, Continuous Integration, Firmware, Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Intrusion Detection and Prevention, Virtual Private Networks (VPN), Python (Programming Language), Network Security, Routing, Regression Testing, Ruby, Web Application Security, Software Engineering, Strategies of Testing, Wide Area Networks, Transport Layer Security, Load Balancing, In-Plane Switching (IPS), Test-Driven Development (TDD), Prompt Engineering, Generative AI, Scalability Testing, AI Coding Agents, Backend, Web Filtering, Integration Tests, Information Technology, Malware Detection, Cisco Switches, Cisco, Golang, Programming Languages
- **Published:** October 26, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.techcareers.com/job.asp?id=3466971254&tx=TT4138TYV&pt=1&aff=0B19D771-A501-4A5E-8338-2A822B784D54&utm_source=Job%20Feed&utm_medium=textkernel&utm_campaign=DE&utm_term=0B19D771-A501-4A5E-8338-2A822B784D54

## About the Role

* Bachelor's Degree, combined with 7 years of related experience in Software Development Engineer in software testing, or Master's Degree of Science Degree in Computer Science, combined with 4 years of related experience or PhD, combined with 1 year of related experience.
 * Prior experience in testing software network security for features such as intrusion prevention/detection, content filtering, advanced malware protection, geolocation, SSL, TLS, etc and performance KPIs.
 * Prior experience in how traffic generators such as Spirent, IXIA, and TREX work.
 * 3+ years of Automation/Development experience.
 * Experience in writing feature development code with one of the programming languages, such as: Python, Ruby, C++, Golang.
 * Prior experience in AI coding tools and Gen-AI prompting techniques., * Prior experience in testing SD-WAN & Routing Reliability: Verifying policy-based routing, dynamic path selection, Auto VPN failover, and WAN load balancing.
 * Feature bug fixing with better quality in Firmware or Backend or UI.
 * Background in distributed cloud environments.
 * Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly to peers and management.
 * Experience with developing frameworks for CI/CD pipelines.

## Description

The Cisco MX (Cloud-managed security and SD-WAN) QA team takes pride in ensuring the end-to-end system of the Meraki MX and Cisco Catalyst product line is ready to use. The team works on, but is not limited to, testing customer use cases, integration testing, scalability testing, stress and longevity testing. This team is also responsible for qualifying security services such as malware detection, URL filtering, web security, IPS, threat modeling, SD-WAN and SaaS/IaaS security capabilities all through a single Dashboard. Our products are used in over a million networks and our customers rely on our products to serve tens of millions of people. With the large footprint that we have, quality is our highest priority!

Your Impact

 * Develop a strong understanding of Cisco Meraki MX use cases and workflows in customer environments.
 * Collaborate with Product Managers and development teams to represent QA in requirements and design discussions.
 * Create and execute test strategies, reporting results and metrics to ensure feature quality.
 * Build and maintain automation scripts to support CI/CD and improve regression test coverage.
 * Drive innovation by applying AI-driven ideas and contributing to feature development with a Test Driven Development approach.