Senior Security Automation Engineer — Remote

Cisco Systems, Inc; San Jose (CA); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Splunk, a Cisco company, is seeking a senior engineer to design and deliver secure Automation and Response capabilities for customers across cloud and enterprise environments. You will own features end-to-end, improve reliability, and guide engineering decisions in collaboration with product managers.

Expect rotating on-call duties and opportunities to advance AI-assisted development practices. The role emphasizes production-ready systems, observability, and a strong ownership culture, with

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field plus 7+ years of related experience, or equivalent advanced degree.
• Applied programming experience in Python, Go, or C++ for production systems.
• Experience designing, delivering, and supporting reliable software in production.
• Background with distributed systems, asynchronous processing, and performance troubleshooting.
• Experience with automated testing, CI/CD pipelines, and containerized deployments.

Responsibilities

• Design and deliver secure, scalable Automation and Response capabilities for customers.
• Own complex features from design through release readiness and production support.
• Improve product quality with observable, reliable, and safe-to-deploy systems.
• Use AI-assisted development and automation to accelerate engineering work and troubleshooting.
• Mentor engineers, guide decisions, and participate in on-call rotations.

Skills

Programming languages (Python, Go, C++

Distributed systems

CI/CD pipelines

Cloud services

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Django/Flask

React

Job description

Splunk, a Cisco company, is seeking a senior engineer to design and deliver secure Automation and Response capabilities for customers across cloud and enterprise environments. You will own features end-to-end, improve reliability, and guide engineering decisions in collaboration with product managers.

Expect rotating on-call duties and opportunities to advance AI-assisted development practices. The role emphasizes production-ready systems, observability, and a strong ownership culture, with