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# Senior Director - Software Engineering (Cisco Duo)

- **Company:** Cisco Systems, Inc.
- **Location:** New York, NY, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $267,200 - $337,900
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Software as a Service, Cyber Security, Computer Engineering, Continuous Delivery, Distributed Systems, Identity and Access Management, OAuth, Operational Data Store, OpenID, Cloud Services, Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML), Single Sign-On, Software Construction, Software Engineering, Enterprise Software Applications, Information Technology, Cisco
- **Published:** November 12, 2026
- **Apply:** https://diversityjobs.com/career/18904954/Senior-Director-Software-Engineering-Cisco-Duo-Texas-Austin

## About the Role

* 15+ years of software engineering experience, including significant experience leading multi-team engineering organizations and developing engineering managers.
 * Proven technical leadership experience in identity and access management (IAM), cybersecurity, enterprise cloud security, or a closely related enterprise software domain.
 * Experience leading distributed engineering organizations that develop, scale, and operate high-availability customer-facing software products or cloud services.
 * Proven track record of delivering complex product capabilities from strategy through launch and continuous live operations, leveraging operational data, telemetry, and customer feedback to drive reliability and execution excellence., * Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
 * Demonstrated ability to attract, hire, and retain top-tier engineering talent and cultivate an inclusive environment grounded in accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
 * Experience guiding architecture for secure, highly available SaaS or distributed systems.
 * Experience building software across public cloud, on-premises, and mobile environments.
 * Fluency with modern authentication and identity standards, including SAML, OIDC, OAuth, and FIDO2/WebAuthn.
 * Proven success evolving an engineering organization's structure, operating model, or development methodologies while sustaining continuous delivery, high team engagement, and positive engineering culture.
 * Strong ability to translate complex architectural tradeoffs, reliability risks, and security investments into strategic business terms for executive leadership.
 * Proven experience collaborating closely with Product Management, User Experience/Design, and other cross-functional partners to shape product roadmaps and deliver exceptional user experiences.

## Description

Duo processes more than a billionauthentications each month for customers around the world, from fast-growing startups to the world's largest enterprises and critical infrastructure providers. The team is responsible for the full Duo stack, including high-throughput, multi-region cloud services, on-premises directory and gateway integrations, and Duo Mobile for iOS and Android. We are a customer-focused engineering team helping organizations keep pace with evolving identity threats through security that is easy to use.

As Senior Director of Engineering, you will lead the engineering team responsible for Duo, Cisco's security-first identity and access management product. Duo helps organizations make access safer without making work harder. It brings together authentication, single sign-on, device trust, and adaptive access controls to verify who is connecting, from which device, and under what conditions.

Your Impact

 * You will align technical priorities and architecture across these areas while strengthening operational practices and reliability across the stack.
 * Your work will help protect organizations and critical infrastructure around the world by delivering secure, easy-to-use identity capabilities.
 * Guide teams on evolving engineering practices to build and operate high-quality software at scale.
 * Partner closely with Product and Design and collaborate with other Cisco product teams to create integrated customer experiences.
 * Develop engineering leaders and build strong, empowered teams that translate product strategy into resilient, scalable, and reliable services.
 * Set technical direction and operational strategy for a flagship product at the intersection of identity, security, and everyday user experience.