Duo Security, now a part of Cisco, is the leading provider of Trusted Access securityand multi-factor authentication delivered through the cloud.
Duo’s mission is to make security simple for everyone. We were born from a hacker ethos and a desire to make the Internet a secure place. We believe in empoweringpeople to follow their passions inside and outside of the office and enable everyemployee to bring their whole self to work.
Our team is our secret sauce. We run the spectrum from artists to analysts, low-key tohigh energy, and bring together a diversity of skill sets, experiences, and perspectives tosolve what we consider to be the world's most pressing geopolitical challenge —transforming the security industry as we know it. Together we build solutions that areeasy, effective, trustworthy, and enduring. And that’s why we are the most loved andtrusted company in security.
As a Senior Software Engineer on our Site Reliability Engineering team, you willdevelop software and tools to empower Duo's product development teams to run andmaintain their services in production. You will collaborate with a wide range of internalpartners to engineer automated solutions in an effort to remove toil and enhancestability for a variety of infrastructure, with an emphasis on scalability. You will facechallenges that require an engineering mindset and a desire to automate everythingpossible.
Skills you have….
● You have architected cloud based services including infrastructure maintenance
● You have mentored more junior engineers in their technical skills
● You can run a meeting where the outcome is a technical decision made
● You have a history of writing performant, maintainable, testable code
● You enjoy reading and critiquing others code in code review
● You are passionate about automation and reducing toil
● You are committed to quality and experienced with modern software testing
practices
● You care about contributing to an amazing work culture and environment
Even better if….
● Prior experience with automated configuration tools like Ansible, Puppet, Chef,
etc
● Prior experience in Infrastructure as Code in Terraform and running
microservices in Kubernetes
● Prior experience writing web applications in Python
● Prior experience deploying cloud services, monitoring, alerting, and handling
escalations
● You have experience supporting a high-availability SaaS environment
● You work well in charting new DevOps practices without a well defined roadmap
Why you should apply….
● You’ve seen the news! Cybersecurity is the biggest issue of our time and you
want to make a difference.
● You thrive having the autonomy to operate in a meaningful problem spacesolving real problems for real people
● You love collaborating with, teaching, and learning from high-performing peers onsoftware projects
This job may not be for you if…
● You only code alone and aren't willing to mentor and be mentored.
● You lack a real passion for writing high-quality secure software that is backed byan equally mature approach to testing.
● You stress under the ambiguity of a problem and default to others to provide youwith the answers.
● Your first instinct is to point out why something can’t be done rather than focusingon what the customer problem is.
● You tire at the thought of a steady, deliberate pace in both a product andcompany.
If you're coming up short in these areas, but think you could still knock it out of the park,apply and tell us your story in an introductory letter.
Why Cisco
We connect everything: people, processes, data, and things. We innovate everywhere, taking bold risks to shape the technologies that give us smart cities, connected cars, and handheld hospitals. And we do it in style with unique personalities who aren’t afraid to change the way the world works, lives, plays, and learns.
Duo is committed to cultivating and preserving a culture of inclusion andconnectedness. We can grow and learn better together with a diverse team ofemployees. The collective sum of the individual differences, life experiences,knowledge, innovation, self-expression, and talent that our employees invest in theirwork represents not only part of our culture but our reputation and Duo’s achievementas well. In recruiting for our team, we welcome the unique contributions that all potentialcandidates can bring in terms of their education, opinions, culture, ethnicity, race,gender identity and expression, nationality, age, languages spoken, veteran’s status,religion, disability, sexual orientation and beliefs.
And if this role is exciting to you, we encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet all100% of the description or qualifications.
We are thought leaders, tech geeks, pop culture aficionados, and we even have a few purple-haired rock stars. We celebrate the creativity and diversity that fuels our innovation. We are dreamers and we are doers.

We Are Cisco.