Meet the Team

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.

• Deliver creative, 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

Minimum Qualifications (Provide up to five (5) bullet points:

• Technical Expertise: at least 10 years of experience in software engineering, building cloud-ba

📌 Director, Software Engineering | Email Security, SaaS | 15+ years, Bangalore (India)
🏢 Cisco
📍 India