Senior Software Engineer

Jobtailor; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor in San Francisco seeks a security-focused senior engineer to design and operate distributed systems that process security data at scale, using Python or Go to build backend services and automation.

You will prototype AI-enabled detection and prediction workflows, collaborate with security SMEs, and develop an AIDevOps pipeline for rapid experimentation with data and models. This role emphasizes measurable success and scalable architecture powering trusted enterprise automation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree with 7+ years of related experience or Master’s with 4+ years
• Experience designing and implementing distributed systems, emphasizing storage systems and storage access layers
• Familiarity with data platforms, data lakes and warehouses, or streaming platforms
• Fluent Python or Go development experience building scalable backend services, APIs, and automation workflows
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, GitHub/GitLab, Jira, and automated testing frameworks
• Experience designing agent systems that perform coding tasks
• Experience partnering with product managers, security SMEs, and engineers

Responsibilities

• Design and build systems combining security-relevant data, detection signals, context, and foundation models to identify and predict threats
• Prototype and test AI features for decoding events and system environments and predicting anomalies and threats
• Work with security SMEs and security researchers to validate real-world utility
• Develop an AIDevOps pipeline for rapid experimentation with data, knowledge bases, models, and context memory
• Define clear, measurable success criteria to evaluate iterations
• Architect and build a distributed platform correlating trillions of events and signals into explainable findings and alerts
• Build capabilities for triage resolution agents in Cisco/Splunk’s Agentic SOC
• Collaborate with product and platform teams to co-design scalable AI-enhanced threat detection and prediction workflows
• Contribute to the core architecture powering AI-native security operations and trusted enterprise automation

Skills

Distributed Systems Design

Python Development

CI/CD Pipeline Implementation

AI-Powered Feature Development

Security Operations Concepts

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Master's Degree

Tools

GitHub

GitLab

Jira

FAISS

Pinecone

Weaviate

TDIR

SIEM

Automated Testing Frameworks

RAG/GraphRAG Pipelines

Job description

• Design and build systems combining security-relevant data, detection signals, context, and foundation models to identify and predict threats
• Prototype and test AI features for decoding events and system environments and predicting anomalies and threats
• Work with security SMEs and security researchers to validate real-world utility
• Develop an AIDevOps pipeline for rapid experimentation with data, knowledge bases, models, and context memory
• Define clear, measurable success criteria to evaluate iterations
• Architect and build a distributed platform correlating trillions of events and signals into explainable findings and alerts
• Build capabilities for triage resolution agents in Cisco/Splunk’s Agentic SOC
• Collaborate with product and platform teams to co-design scalable AI-enhanced threat detection and prediction workflows
• Contribute to the core architecture powering AI-native security operations and trusted enterprise automation

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree with 7+ years of related experience or Master's with 4+ years of related experience
• Experience designing and implementing distributed systems, emphasizing storage systems and storage access layers
• Familiarity with data platforms, data lakes and warehouses, or streaming platforms
• Fluent Python or Go development experience building scalable backend services, APIs, and automation workflows
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, GitHub/GitLab, Jira, and automated testing frameworks
• Experience designing agent systems that perform coding tasks
• Experience partnering with product managers, security SMEs, and engineers
• Preferred: experience building and maintaining pipelines for large-scale security telemetry
• Preferred: familiarity with TDIR/SIEM architectures, correlation searches, and threat hunting support systems
• Preferred: understanding of security operations concepts including attack surface management, threat analytics, detection, triage, investigation, and response
• Preferred: former Tier 3 SOC analyst or equivalent experience automating SecOps workflows and building scalable detection infrastructure
• Preferred: exposure to event storage systems or custom cybersecurity embeddings
• Preferred: hands-on RAG/GraphRAG pipelines and vector databases such as FAISS, Pinecone, or Weaviate
• Preferred: experience integrating and optimizing large language models or GNNs, GCNs, and GATs
• Preferred: experience shipping AI-powered features or products
• Preferred: ability to design model-output evaluation experiments for accuracy, usability, performance, and cost
• Preferred: background or interest in AI-assisted analyst workflows focused on usability, trust, and decision support

Core Competencies

Demonstrates expertise in designing and implementing distributed systems, with a strong focus on security operations and AI-enhanced threat detection. Proficient in Python or Go for building scalable backend services and automation workflows, alongside experience in CI/CD pipelines and data platforms.

Highest-signal resume keywords

• Distributed Systems Design
• Python Development
• CI/CD Pipeline Implementation
• AI-Powered Feature Development
• Security Operations Concepts

ATS Optimization Keywords

Hard Skills

• Distributed Systems
• Backend Services
• APIs
• Automation Workflows
• Data Platforms
• Storage Systems
• Threat Detection
• Model Evaluation
• Agent Systems
• Security Telemetry

Soft Skills

• Collaboration
• Communication
• Problem-Solving
• Partnership

Industry Keywords

• Threat Analytics
• Attack Surface Management
• Detection
• Triage
• Investigation
• Response
• Security Operations Center
• Large Language Models
• GNNs
• GCNs

Tools & Technologies

• GitHub
• GitLab
• Jira
• FAISS
• Pinecone
• Weaviate
• TDIR
• SIEM
• Automated Testing Frameworks
• RAG/GraphRAG Pipelines