Senior AI Platform Engineer — Build Scalable Agents

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

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) matching

Health benefits

Paid time off

Job summary

Cisco Systems, Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the AI Platform team.

You will contribute to architecture, design, development, and operation of an enterprise-scale agent platform, working hands-on across the platform including harness, SDK, AI infrastructure, memory systems, and user interfaces. You will collaborate with architects, product managers, security, and domain teams to deliver scalable backend platforms, with emphasis on performance, observability, and secure,

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field required.
• Experience shipping LLM-powered applications or agents to production.
• Experience with Python and designing frameworks, SDKs, or platform APIs.
• Familiarity with distributed systems fundamentals: API design, asynchronous/event-driven processing, streaming, caching, rate limiting, fault tolerance.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the design and delivery of the platform from design through production operation.
• Write code, review designs and pull requests, and tackle hard technical problems.
• Build reusable platform capabilities with clear interfaces, versioning, and documentation.
• Uphold engineering standards for quality, security, observability, and evaluation.
• Improve latency, reliability, and cost for production AI workloads.
• Run what you build: define SLOs, participate in on-call, and incident reviews.
• Collaborate with architects, product managers, security, and domain teams to translate requirements into solutions.
• Mentor peers through code reviews, design discussions, and documentation.

Skills

LLM-powered apps

Python

Distributed systems

API design

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field

Master's degree in related field

Tools

LangGraph/LangChain

FastAPI

Kafka

PostgreSQL/pgvector

OpenTelemetry

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Cisco Systems, Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the AI Platform team.

You will contribute to architecture, design, development, and operation of an enterprise-scale agent platform, working hands-on across the platform including harness, SDK, AI infrastructure, memory systems, and user interfaces. You will collaborate with architects, product managers, security, and domain teams to deliver scalable backend platforms, with emphasis on performance, observability, and secure,