Senior AI-Driven Security Platform Engineer

020 Cisco Systems, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 168,000 - 245,000; Full time

Job summary

Cisco is seeking engineers to design and build AI-enabled security systems that fuse vast data signals with foundation models to detect threats in real time. You will prototype new AI capabilities, develop rapid experimentation pipelines, and architect scalable platforms capable of correlating trillions of events for analysts.

The role emphasizes collaboration with product teams and security SMEs to deliver reliable, trusted automation across enterprise defenses, shaping the next generation of

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree with 7+ years of related experience or Master's with 4+ years of related experience.
• Distributed Systems design and implementation experience with an emphasis on storage systems and storage access layers.
• Data Platform/Fabric Familiarity – experience with data platforms and/or data lakes and warehouses or streaming platforms.
• Fluent Python or Go Development – experience building scalable backend services, APIs, and automation workflows.
• DevOps/SecOps Practices – CI/CD, version control (GitHub/GitLab), Jira, and automated testing frameworks.
• Agentic development – experience designing agent systems that perform coding tasks.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration – working with product managers, security SMEs, and engineers.

Responsibilities

• Design and build systems that combine security-relevant data, detection signals, context, and foundation models to spot and predict threats.
• Prototype and test new AI features—from decoding events and system environments to predicting anomalies and threats.
• Develop an AIDevOps pipeline to enable rapid experimentation with data.
• Architect and build the distributed platform that can correlate trillions of events & signals, and synthesize them into explainable findings and alerts.
• Collaborate with product and platform teams to co-design AI-enhanced threat detection workflows.
• Contribute to the core architecture powering AI-native security operations and scalable automated defenses.

Skills

Distributed Systems design

Data Platforms

Python or Go

DevOps / SecOps

Agentic development

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's Degree with 7+ years or Master's with 4+ years

Tools

GitHub/GitLab

Jira

Job description

Cisco is seeking engineers to design and build AI-enabled security systems that fuse vast data signals with foundation models to detect threats in real time. You will prototype new AI capabilities, develop rapid experimentation pipelines, and architect scalable platforms capable of correlating trillions of events for analysts.

The role emphasizes collaboration with product teams and security SMEs to deliver reliable, trusted automation across enterprise defenses, shaping the next generation of