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

Note: This is a remote U.S. based role, requiring work within the Pacific Time Zone. 

Meet the Team 

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 and maintain APIs 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 

• Ability to collaborate effectively with peers across a geographically distributed team, with regular overlap during Pacific Time (PST/ PDT) business hours. 

Minimum Qualifications 

• Bachelor's degree + 8 years of related software engineering experience, or Master's + 6 years of related experience, or PhD + 3 years of related experience. 

• 5+ years of development experience in languages such as Go, C, or C++  

• Experience developing software in Linux environments  

• Experience building or maintaining software