Software Engineering Technical Leader

The application window is expected to close on: 08/31/2026 Job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received . Meet the Team Cisco Identity Intelligence (CII) helps organizations defend against one of today’s fastest-growing security challenges: identity-based attacks.

By bringing together identity activity from providers, applications, and security systems—including Okta, Microsoft Entra ID, Duo, and Cisco ISE—CII creates a unified, real-time picture of users, devices, applications, and behaviors. As a key part of Cisco’s Identity Threat Detection and Response strategy, the platform helps security teams detect suspicious activity, investigate threats, and act with confidence.

Join us to build thoughtful, high-impact experiences that help customers protect their most critical assets. Your Impact As a Software Engineering Technical Leader and hands-on individual contributor, you will shape how the team turns product ideas into high-quality customer experiences.

You will provide deep frontend leadership while remaining actively engaged in day-to-day design, implementation, debugging, testing, and code review. You will define and evolve the frontend architecture and UI experience across React, TypeScript, GraphQL/Apollo, shared UI patterns, routing, performance, accessibility, and maintainability.

You will help the team prototype quickly, translate ambiguous requirements into production-ready work, and use product analytics to understand adoption and guide iteration. This role will also help establish scalable micro-frontend integration patterns and frontend-specific standards for AI-assisted development.

Your work will raise the quality, consistency, and velocity of contributions from across the team while reducing dependence on a small number of engineers for critical frontend architecture decisions. Key Responsibilities Design, build, test, debug, and maintain high-quality, scalable customer-facing applications using React and TypeScript.

Lead frontend technical design and architecture decisions, including component and shared UI patterns, state management, routing, performance, accessibility, testing, and long-term maintainability. Partner closely with product managers and designers to rapidly prototype, iterate on, and validate customer experiences, even when requirements are incomplete or evolving.

Evolve the team’s micro-frontend strategy, including host/remote integration, module federation or comparable patterns, runtime isolation, dependency sharing, ownership boundaries, and deployment expectations. Use qualitative and quantitative product signals to identify adoption issues and partner with product and design to improve feature outcomes.

Create reusable frontend standards, patterns, documentation, and review expectations that improve consistency and make architecture knowledge broadly accessible. Define practical guardrails, workflows, review standards, and quality gates for AI-assisted UI development, ensuring generated and human-written code meets standards for UX, visual quality, accessibility, performance, security, and maintainable structure.

Provide high-quality code reviews, remove delivery bottlenecks, mentor engineers, and raise the frontend craft of full-stack and frontend contributors. Continuously evaluate and adopt tools, techniques, and platform improvements that enhance the team’s development workflow and product quality.

Minimum Requirements 8+ years experience as a hands-on individual contributor delivering production frontend software. Advanced experience building complex frontend applications with React and TypeScript. Experience with GraphQL and Apollo, including data fetching, caching, and client-side state-management patterns.

Experience owning frontend technical designs and making sound day-to-day implementation decisions across testing, debugging, code review, performance, and maintainability. Experience collaborating effectively with product managers, designers, and backend engineers to deliver customer-facing experiences.

Preferred Requirements Deep expertise in React, TypeScript, GraphQL/Apollo, shared UI systems, frontend testing strategy, accessibility standards, and performance tuning at scale. Practical experience with micro-frontend architecture, including module federation, host/remote integration, runtime isolation, dependency sharing, ownership boundaries, and deployment strategy.

Proven ability to use analytics as a product feedback loop, identifying adoption issues and partnering with product and design to improve feature outcomes. Experience rapidly prototyping customer-facing experiences and helping teams validate product ideas before requirements are fully defined.

Demonstrated design judgment and frontend craft, including the ability to evaluate visual quality, interaction patterns, usability, accessibility, and overall product experience. Experience establishing frontend architecture standards and scalable integration patterns across multiple teams, applications, or independently owned frontend surfaces.

Strong practical working knowledge of AWS, Terraform, shell scripting, and the operational practices needed to build, run, troubleshoot, and maintain a secure, reliable sandbox environment. Experience creating guardrails, reusable workflows, review standards, or quality gates for AI-assisted frontend development.

Track record of reducing dependency on individual technical experts by documenting patterns, mentoring engineers, and distributing frontend architecture knowledge across a team. Why Cisco? At Cisco, we’re revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era – and beyond.

We’ve been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint.

Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you’ll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale.

Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere. We are Cisco, and our power starts with you. Message to applicants applying to work in the U.S. and/or Canada: The starting salary range posted for this position is $149,100.00 to $218,900.00 and reflects the projected salary range for new hires in this position in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including incentive compensation*, equity, or benefits.

Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location, market conditions, job-related skillset, experience, qualifications, education, certifications, and/or training. The full salary range for certain locations is listed below. For locations not listed below, the recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.

U.S. employees are offered benefits, subject to Cisco’s plan eligibility rules, which include medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, paid parental leave, short and long-term disability coverage, and basic life insurance.

Please see the Cisco careers site to discover more benefits and perks. Employees may be eligible to receive grants of Cisco restricted stock units, which vest following continued employment with Cisco for defined periods of time. U.S. employees are eligible for paid time away as described below, subject to Cisco’s policies: 10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees 1 paid day off for employee’s birthday, paid year-end holiday shutdown, and 4 paid days off for personal wellness determined by Cisco Non-exempt employees** receive 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year, accrued at rate of 4.92 hours per pay period for full-time employees Exempt employees participate in Cisco’s flexible vacation time off program, which has no defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use (subject to availability and some business limitations) 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter, and up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward from one calendar year to the next Additional paid time away may be requested to deal with critical or emergency issues for family members Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer For non-sales roles, employees are also eligible to earn annual bonuses subject to Cisco’s policies.

Employees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, which is split between quota and non-quota components, subject to the applicable Cisco plan. For quota-based incentive pay, Cisco typically pays as follows: .75% of incentive target for each 1% of revenue attainment up to 50% of quota; 1.5% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 50% and 75%; 1% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 75% and 100%; and Once performance exceeds 100% attainment, incentive rates are at or above 1% for each 1% of attainment with no cap on incentive compensation.

For non-quota-based sales performance elements such as strategic sales objectives, Cisco may pay 0% up to 125% of target. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid. The applicable full salary ranges for this position, by specific state, are listed below: New York City Metro Area: $183,800.00 - $303,100.00 Non-Metro New York state & Washington state: $163,600.00 - $269,800.00 * For quota-based sales roles on Cisco’s sales plan, the ranges provided in this posting include base pay and sales target incentive compensation combined. ** Employees in Illinois, whether exempt or non-exempt, will participate in a unique time off program to meet local requirements.