Senior Software Engineer, Control Plane (Go) - Hypershield

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09/15/2026Note: This is a remote U.S. based role, requiring work within the Pacific Time Zone.

Meet the Team

Join Cisco’s CiscoHypershield team, where we are building the next generation of distributed security infrastructure for modern networking environments. WithinHypershield, the Smart Switch team develops foundational security capabilities that extend across multiple Cisco platforms, including switching, routing, andfirewall systems.

This teamis 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 distributedfirewall 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 acrosscontrolplane,dataplane, and platform teams to deliver scalable capabilities that support deployment, observability, and policy enforcement across distributed environments.

Whatyou’ll do

• Design and develop control plane features for network security products using Go in Linux-based environments
• Build andmaintainAPIs andcloud-based configuration services that translate network and security policy into configurations consumed by distributed networking infrastructure.
• Develop business logic for network configuration and orchestration, working with networking concepts suc