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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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The Senior Staff Engineer - Agentic Identity joins a team building foundational identity, authentication, and governance infrastructure for non-human callers and autonomous agents. This technical leader will define and build core agentic identity capabilities across cloud, on-premises, and hybrid architectures. Key responsibilities include designing scalable identity and access management frameworks, implementing token exchange and credential brokering, and developing reusable APIs, SDKs, and CLI tools. The role requires expertise in distributed systems, backend services, and security platforms using protocols such as OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML, SCIM, SPIFFE, and mTLS. Candidates must utilize containerization technologies like Docker and Kubernetes alongside major cloud platforms. The work addresses the evolving paradigm of identity for AI agents executing multi-step actions across critical customer data in enterprise environments.
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Design and implement scalable identity and access management frameworks for AI agents.
Build reusable APIs, SDKs, CLI tools, and integration patterns for platform adoption.
Lead technical strategy from initial concept through production deployment for agentic identity.
Set architectural direction and establish engineering standards for non-human identity systems.
Rapidly prototype and iterate production MVPs for ambiguous identity and security problems.
Conduct design and code reviews to ensure technical excellence and security standards.
Mentor engineering talent and provide technical leadership across the identity team.
What we're looking for
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field with 12+ years of software engineering experience.
Master’s degree with 8+ years of relevant experience.
10+ years of experience designing and building distributed systems, backend services, or security platforms in production environments.
5+ years of experience implementing enterprise identity, authentication, or access protocols such as OAuth 2.0/2.1, OIDC, SAML, SCIM, LDAP, SPIFFE, or mTLS.
4+ years of experience with containerization technologies (Docker, containerd, or Kubernetes) and at least one major cloud platform (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
3+ years of experience with security engineering principles, including threat modeling, attack-path analysis, or security architecture reviews.
Experience designing or securing AI-adjacent architectures, tool-using agentic workflows, policy control layers, or Model Context Protocol (MCP) authorization (preferred).
Deep technical expertise developing multi-threaded, high-throughput server-side applications in Go, C/C++, or Java on Linux (preferred).
Python
Go
LLM
Agentic Workflows
APIs
CI/CD
Distributed Systems
Model Context Protocol
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