Senior Software Engineer, AI-Driven Security Platform

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

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) matching

Parental leave

Paid time off

Job summary

Cisco Systems, Inc. is seeking an experienced engineer to design and build AI-enabled security platforms. You will develop distributed systems that correlate vast security data, create AIDevOps pipelines, and collaborate with product and platform teams to deliver scalable threat detection tools. Strong Python/Go and DevOps experience are essential for this role.

The role emphasizes cross-functional collaboration and building explainable, trusted automation within the enterprise Cisco ecosystem.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree or higher with 7+ years related experience or Master's with 4+ years.
• Experience designing distributed systems and storage access layers.
• Fluent Python or Go development for scalable backend services.

Responsibilities

• Design and build systems that combine security data, signals, context, and foundation models to spot threats.
• Prototype and test AI features with security SMEs and researchers.
• Develop an AIDevOps pipeline for rapid experimentation with data and context memory.
• Architect and build a distributed platform that correlates trillions of events and signals.
• Collaborate with product and platform teams to co-design AI-enhanced threat detection workflows.
• Contribute to core architecture powering AI-native security operations across Cisco.

Skills

Distributed Systems

Data Platform/Fabric

Python/Go

DevOps/SecOps

Agentic Development

Cross-Functional Collaboration

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Master's Degree

Tools

GitHub/GitLab

Jira

Job description

Cisco Systems, Inc. is seeking an experienced engineer to design and build AI-enabled security platforms. You will develop distributed systems that correlate vast security data, create AIDevOps pipelines, and collaborate with product and platform teams to deliver scalable threat detection tools. Strong Python/Go and DevOps experience are essential for this role.

The role emphasizes cross-functional collaboration and building explainable, trusted automation within the enterprise Cisco ecosystem.