Senior AI Security Platform Engineer

020 Cisco Systems, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 187,000 - 268,000; Full time

Job summary

Cisco seeks an engineering leader to design and build distributed security platforms that fuse telemetry, signals, and AI models to detect threats and accelerate response. You will prototype AI features, develop an end‑to‑end DevOps pipeline, and work with security SMEs to validate real‑world utility.

You will help shape AI‑native security operations, scale trusted automation across the enterprise, and partner with product and platform teams to deliver intuitive, scalable workflows for analysts.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree with 8+ years of related experience or Master's with 6+ years.
• Distributed systems design and storage access layers.
• Experience building data platforms or data lakes and warehouses.
• Proficient Python for scalable backend services, APIs, and automation workflows.
• CI/CD pipelines, version control (GitHub/GitLab), Jira, and automated testing frameworks.
• Agentic development experience designing agent systems for coding tasks.
• Cross-functional collaboration with product managers, security SMEs, and engineers.
• Security telemetry fluency with endpoint logs, network traffic, or cloud audit trails.

Responsibilities

• Design and build systems that fuse security data, detection signals, context, and foundation models to spot threats.
• Prototype and test AI features, validating real‑world utility with security SMEs and researchers.
• Develop an AI DevOps pipeline to enable rapid experimentation with data.
• Architect and scale a distributed platform that can process trillions of events and support analysts.
• Collaborate with product and platform teams to co‑design AI‑enhanced threat detection workflows.

Skills

Distributed Systems

Python Development

DevOps/SecOps

Cross-functional Collaboration

Security Telemetry Fluency

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Master's Degree

Tools

Splunk APIs

FAISS

Pinecone

GitHub/GitLab

Job description

Cisco seeks an engineering leader to design and build distributed security platforms that fuse telemetry, signals, and AI models to detect threats and accelerate response. You will prototype AI features, develop an end‑to‑end DevOps pipeline, and work with security SMEs to validate real‑world utility.

You will help shape AI‑native security operations, scale trusted automation across the enterprise, and partner with product and platform teams to deliver intuitive, scalable workflows for analysts.