Senior AI Platform Engineer: Build Scalable Agents

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental and vision coverage

401(k) with company match

Paid parental leave

Generous vacation and sick time

Job summary

Cisco Systems, Inc in the United States is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the AI Platform to help design, build, and operate an enterprise-grade agent platform. You will contribute across the platform stack, from the agent harness to governance, applying Python, FastAPI, Kafka, and OpenTelemetry in production environments.

Collaborating with architects, product managers, and security teams, you will write code, review designs, and set SLOs.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field; plus 7 years of experience, or a Master's with 4+ years of experience.
• Experience shipping LLM-powered applications or agents to production and handling failure.
• Experience with Python and designing frameworks, SDKs, or platform APIs used by other engineers.
• Experience with distributed systems fundamentals: API design, asynchronous/event-driven processing, streaming, caching, rate limiting, fault tolerance.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the architecture, design, development, and operation of Cisco's AI Platform.
• Write code, review designs and pull requests; tackle hard technical problems.
• Build reusable platform capabilities with clear interfaces, versioning, and documentation.
• Define SLOs, participate in on-call, and contribute to incident reviews.
• Mentor peers through code reviews, design discussions, and documentation.

Skills

LLM-powered apps

Python

Distributed systems

API design

OpenTelemetry

Kafka

Docker

Kubernetes

FastAPI

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

FastAPI

Kafka

PostgreSQL

pgvector

OpenTelemetry

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Job description

Cisco Systems, Inc in the United States is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the AI Platform to help design, build, and operate an enterprise-grade agent platform. You will contribute across the platform stack, from the agent harness to governance, applying Python, FastAPI, Kafka, and OpenTelemetry in production environments.

Collaborating with architects, product managers, and security teams, you will write code, review designs, and set SLOs.