Senior Software Engineering Manager

Cisco

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Location
San Jose, CA
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Full-time
Posted
68 days ago
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Cisco Systems is the world''s leading networking technology company, designing and manufacturing networking hardware, telecommunications equipment, and cybersecurity solutions for businesses and governments. Industry: Networking Technology & Cybersecurity

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TL;DR · Senior Software Engineering Manager

JOB TITLE: Senior Software Engineering Manager The Senior Software Engineering Manager joins the Automation and Response team to lead engineering teams in delivering secure, scalable capabilities across cloud and enterprise environments. This role involves owning execution for feature planning, release readiness, production operations, and customer escalations while ensuring features are observable, reliable, and safely deployable. The manager will build a high-accountability culture, utilizing AI-assisted workflows, agentic workflows, and automation to improve engineering judgment, triage, and planning. Key technical requirements include experience with cloud-native development, CI/CD, test automation, observability, and distributed systems. The role addresses the business problem of helping security teams orchestrate workflows and reduce manual toil by moving from signal to action at machine speed, specifically focusing on security automation, response workflows, and orchestration platforms.

What does a Software Engineering Manager earn in California?

Median $281300 from 43 postings across 15 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Lead engineering teams to deliver secure and scalable automation and response capabilities across cloud and enterprise environments.
  • Own execution for feature planning, release readiness, production operations, and customer escalations.
  • Ensure features are observable, reliable, and designed to minimize customer impact.
  • Implement AI-assisted workflows and automation to reduce management overhead and accelerate triage.
  • Build a high-accountability engineering culture focused on clear communication and continuous operational improvement.
  • Manage the hiring, coaching, and professional growth of engineering managers and technical leaders.
  • Oversee cross-team dependency management and maintain on-call health and tracking hygiene.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 12+ years of software engineering experience building cloud, enterprise, security, infrastructure, or distributed systems.
  • 5+ years of engineering management experience leading teams through planning, delivery, operations, customer escalations, and performance management.
  • Experience with cloud-native development, CI/CD, test automation, observability, production operations, and secure software delivery.
  • Experience using AI-assisted development, automation, agentic workflows, prompts, or custom skills to improve engineering workflows.
  • Experience with security automation, response workflows, orchestration platforms, case triage, or enterprise security products (preferred).
  • Experience leading customer-facing SaaS or hybrid-cloud services with high expectations for reliability and release quality (preferred).
  • Track record of hiring, coaching, and growing engineering managers, senior engineers, and technical leaders (preferred).

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