Software Engineer II, Device Health

Duo Security, now a part of Cisco, is the leading provider of Trusted Access security and multi-factor authentication delivered through the cloud.

Duos mission is to make security simple for everyone. We were born from a hacker ethos and a desire to make the Internet a secure place. We believe in empowering people to follow their passions inside and outside of the office and enable every employee to bring their whole self to work.

Were a diverse crew of makers and builders, skaters and coders, filmmakers and DJs, teachers and students brought together by a shared belief in adding value to the world. This diversity allows us to bring an empathetic approach to solve some of the most complex global business and security challenges faced today.

What youll do

As an engineer on the Device Health team, you will work on our Duo desktop application and backend services. This application helps people throughout the world keep their computers safe. Youll be working with a team to build a multi-faceted product with native code on Windows, MacOS, Linux paired with a Python service infrastructure and React-based web application. This is a new product initiative with significant greenfield opportunities. You will help us develop, deploy, and maintain this service.

We emphasize software craftsmanship and apply it to our development practices. You will collaborate on technical direction, review code, and be an owner over the quality of our software. 

Skills you have

• Built multiple web or native desktop applications

• Leverage source control to maintain large projects

• You strive to make products simple to understand and easy to implement

• You seek, appreciate, and can act-upon user feedback

• Write performant, maintainable, testable code

Even better if...

• You love working with Python, Swift, C++, or C#

• You love automation particularly CI/CD

• You are a user of cloud hosting services (like AWS or Azure)

• You have used automated configuration tools like Ansible, Puppet, or Chef to deploy products.

• Prior experience deploying cloud services, monitoring, alerting, and handling escalations

• You have experience supporting a high-availability SaaS environment

• You are familiar with asynchronous programming patterns like in Node, .NET, and Pythons asyncio and Twisted

• You have knowledge of network security, encryption, authentication, and authorization

• You have a solid understanding of security best-practices in web development

3 Reasons why you should apply

• You thrive having the autonomy to operate in a meaningful problem space solving real problems for real people.

• You work best in teams of high-performers who are passionate about a common goal.

• You revel in the opportunity to do it all; from desktop to web, to production deployment!

This job may not be for you if

• You only code alone and aren't willing to mentor and be mentored.

• You lack a real passion for writing high-quality secure software that is backed by an equally mature approach to testing.

• You stress under the ambiguity of a problem and default to others to provide you with the answers.

• Your first instinct is to point out why something cant be done rather than focusing on what the customer problem is.

• You tire at the thought of a steady, deliberate pace in both a product and company.
  
  

Does this sound like it was written for you? Excellent! Please apply and lets explore this together.