Senior Software Engineer - Control Plane (Go/Kubernetes) - Hypershield

Cisco Systems, Inc.
Topeka, United States of America
yesterday

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English
Experience level
Senior

Job location

Topeka, United States of America

Tech stack

API
Catalyst
Configuration Management
Computer Security
Distributed Systems
Network Security
Linux System Administration
Network Control
Routing
Cisco Nexus Switches
Software Engineering
Data Logging
Computer Networking Systems
Delivery Pipeline
Kubernetes
Cisco networks

Job description

Join Cisco's Cisco Hypershield team, where we are building the next generation of distributed security infrastructure for modern networking environments. Within Hypershield, the Smart Switch team develops foundational security capabilities that extend across multiple Cisco platforms, including switching, routing, and firewall systems.

This team is responsible for core control plane software that enables policy configuration, deployment workflows, logging, visibility, and feature orchestration across a shared security architecture used by products spanning Cisco systems networking portfolios, including Nexus, Catalyst, and emerging smart switch platforms.

The work here is highly foundational: features built by this team influence security behavior across multiple Cisco networking products and future infrastructure platforms.

Your Impact

In this role, you will design and develop control plane software for security features used in smart switching platforms and distributed firewall systems. You will contribute to core feature development from design through implementation, with a focus on APIs, policy orchestration, and secure service integration.

You will work closely with engineers across control plane, data plane, and platform teams to deliver scalable capabilities that support deployment, observability, and policy enforcement across distributed environments.

What you'll do

  • Design and develop control plane features for network security products using Go in Linux-based environments

  • Build andmaintainAPIs used for policy configuration, deployment workflows, logging, and operational visibility

  • Integrate third-party components and internal services into Cisco security platforms

  • Collaborate with data plane and platform engineering teams to deliver end-to-end feature functionality

  • Contribute to architecture discussions, feature design, and technical execution for new security capabilities

Requirements

  • Bachelor'sdegree +8years of related software engineering expe

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