Director, Software Engineering | Email Security, SaaS | 15+ years, Bangalore at Cisco in Bangalore, India

Job description

• You will lead engineering for industry leading software in security space. We invite you to join our Email Threat Defense with a focus on driving gen AI based improvements to the SDLC as well as AI Adoption with the teams. You will also work to add customer facing AI/LLM Functionality to our established suite of Threat Detection products. You will also work to apply our threat detection and security offerings to secure AI Agents. You will also have some SRE/observability responsibilities outside of threat detection.
• Your Impact
• Our Email Threat Detection teams offer a suite of on-prem and cloud-based threat detection solutions for enterprise customers. The team is globally distributed and provides critical functionality for Cisco Security.

Responsibilities

• Deliver innovative, differentiated software solutions in threat detection, agentic AI security, and product security spaces.
• Work with Product Management, Design, and other Engineering Directors to set the technical vision for the future of Threat Detection.
• Work with Product Management and Design to set the vision for the future of Threat Detection.
• Guide engineering teams through defining short, medium, and long-term goals to achieve the vision
• Lead the recruiting strategy to build a diverse and inclusive team: driving decisions on whom the team needs to hire, partnering with our recruiters to define requirements, and talking to candidates
• Mentor and coach managers and senior engineers through technical and non-technical challenges
• Develop career plans for people on your team and help them do the same for theirs
• Encourage thoughtful and creative ways to recognize achievement
• Provide counsel as a member of senior engineering leadership
• Assist with engineering-wide initiatives such as offsites, training, and process evolution

Requirements

• Technical Expertise: at least 10 years of experience in software engineering, building cloud-based and on-prem applications.
• Leadership and Team Management: At least 7 years of experience leading multiple, high performing software engineering teams working on cloud and on-prem applications. Experience managing through managers and managing teams through change.
• Collaboration: Demonstrated prior experience partnering closely with Design, Data Science, Security, SRE, or Product Management to deliver usable and secure software solutions to customers.
• AI Expertise: a demonstrated track record of leading teams through AI driven changes in the SDLC. Experience driving AI adoption and product integration.
• Observability: Prior experience leading teams working on observability.
• Proven experience in leading cross-functional teams, architecting scalable infrastructure, implementing secure software design principles, and delivering high-quality software products under tight deadlines and tight resources.
• Experience leading organizations of 50+ engineers with global distribution.
• Passion about growing as a leader
• Experience building a team, making decisions on recruiting, and organizational design
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, enabling them to effectively convey complex technical ideas to both technical and non-technical stakeholders

Skills

Required

• Technical Expertise
• Leadership and Team Management
• Collaboration
• AI Expertise
• Observability

Preferred

• Architecting scalable infrastructure
• Passion about growing as a leader