Senior AI Tools & Performance Engineer

Cisco Systems, Inc; Milpitas (CA); Hybrid; USD 187,000 - 268,000; Full time

Job summary

Cisco Systems, Inc in San Jose is seeking a senior software engineer to lead AI-powered developer tools, including intelligent agents for automated PR analysis and CI failure diagnosis, to accelerate engineering cycles.

You will drive performance testing with Locust, implement safe execution frameworks, and integrate observability across Datadog, Grafana, Splunk, and OpenTelemetry to guide architecture decisions and productivity platform delivery.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related STEM field; 10+ years in software engineering.
• 5+ years using Python to design, build, and deploy internal engineering platforms or tooling.
• Experience with LLM APIs, AI coding assistants, or autonomous agent workflows in pipelines.
• Experience with performance engineering, load testing, and workload modeling.
• Experience with Kubernetes, observability platforms, and CI/CD tooling.

Responsibilities

• Architect and deploy AI-assisted developer tools: build intelligent agents for PR analysis and CI failure diagnosis.
• Drive end-to-end performance engineering with load testing to optimize latency and throughput.
• Establish safe agent execution with sandboxing and guardrails for reliability and security.
• Unify observability with Datadog, Grafana, Splunk and OpenTelemetry to guide architecture decisions.
• Ship developer productivity platforms and automate engineering workflows at scale.

Skills

Python

AI coding assistants

CI/CD pipelines

Git

Automation frameworks

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related STEM field

Master’s degree

Ph.D.

Tools

Locust

Kubernetes

Datadog

Grafana

Splunk

OpenTelemetry

Playwright

Job description

Cisco Systems, Inc in San Jose is seeking a senior software engineer to lead AI-powered developer tools, including intelligent agents for automated PR analysis and CI failure diagnosis, to accelerate engineering cycles.

You will drive performance testing with Locust, implement safe execution frameworks, and integrate observability across Datadog, Grafana, Splunk, and OpenTelemetry to guide architecture decisions and productivity platform delivery.