Senior Software Engineer (Identity Engineering - SSO)

The application window is expected to close on: 12/13/2026 Preferred candidates will be based in Ann Arbor, MI or Austin, TX. Remote candidates will be considered Meet the Team Cisco’s Identity Engineering organization is building a unified foundation for connecting, managing, and securing identity across Cisco products and diverse enterprise identity systems. The platform will support identity lifecycle management and consistent security enforcement for workforce users, service identities, and emerging AI agents.

You will join the squad responsible for the platform’s core SSO and identity-brokering capabilities. The team works on authentication, federation, and identity orchestration across heterogeneous systems, solving complex distributed-systems and cross-product integration challenges. Your Impact In this role, you will help build the authentication and federation foundation of Cisco’s identity platform.

include: Identity Platform Engineering & SSO: Design and develop secure, scalable SSO and identity-broker services using Python. Build APIs and platform capabilities that support authentication, federation, identity orchestration, and integration across Cisco products. Technical Design & Ownership: Own complex software components from design through implementation, testing, and delivery.

Evaluate tradeoffs involving security, scalability, performance, and extensibility, and document significant decisions through technical designs and Architecture Dec