Backend Cloud Security Engineer — AI-Native

Cisco Systems, Inc.; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 170,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Life insurance

Vision insurance

Parental leave

Paid holidays

Sick time

401(k)

Job summary

Cisco Systems, Inc. in San Jose, CA is seeking an experienced software engineer to design and operate AI-enabled security data pipelines and backend services.

You will build APIs, process telemetry, and prototype AI features while collaborating with security SMEs, researchers, and product teams. You will contribute to scalable data platforms, define tests, ensure reliability, and participate in design reviews, CI/CD, and production readiness efforts, applying Python and modern engineering

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field with 4+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Experience developing backend services, APIs, data-processing systems, or distributed software.
• Experience with Python and Python-based systems.
• Experience with software development fundamentals, including design, testing, debugging, code review, version control, and CI/CD practices.
• Experience working with structured or semi-structured event data, logs, metrics, or telemetry.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, test, and operate a defined service, data pipeline, or platform component supporting AI-enabled security detection and investigation.
• Build reliable backend services, APIs, and automation workflows, primarily using Python and other modern engineering technologies.
• Process and normalize security telemetry such as endpoint events, network activity, authentication records, or cloud audit data.
• Contribute to correlation, enrichment, retrieval, and context-generation capabilities that produce useful and explainable security findings.
• Prototype focused AI features using existing models, retrieval systems, embeddings, or agent frameworks.
• Create measurable tests and evaluations for accuracy, reliability, latency, cost, and operational usefulness.
• Participate in technical design reviews, code reviews, automated testing, CI/CD, documentation, and production-readiness activities.
• Troubleshoot issues across software, data, and service integrations and help improve system observability and reliability.
• Partner with product managers, security SMEs, researchers, and engineers to clarify requirements and deliver incremental improvements.
• Participate in production support or on-call responsibilities, where applicable to the team's operating model.

Skills

Python

Backend services

APIs

CI/CD

Telemetry data

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field

Tools

Kubernetes

Cloud platforms

Job description

Cisco Systems, Inc. in San Jose, CA is seeking an experienced software engineer to design and operate AI-enabled security data pipelines and backend services.

You will build APIs, process telemetry, and prototype AI features while collaborating with security SMEs, researchers, and product teams. You will contribute to scalable data platforms, define tests, ensure reliability, and participate in design reviews, CI/CD, and production readiness efforts, applying Python and modern engineering