Senior Staff AI Security Engineer — Agentic SOC Platform

Cisco; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 214,000 - 356,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) with company matching

Paid parental leave

Vacation, sick leave, and holidays

Volunteer days

Job summary

Cisco is seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer to drive the Agentic SOC platform across Cisco and Splunk security products. You will build shared orchestration, evaluation, and memory systems enabling trusted AI agents in cloud, on‑prem, sovereign cloud, and air‑gapped environments.

You will mentor engineers, ensure reliability and compliance, and translate security needs into reusable, scalable tooling while remaining hands-on in design reviews and implementation.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience developing, testing, and/or operating production software.
• Experience building and/or operating large-scale distributed or AI-enabled production systems, with experience programming with Python or Go.

Responsibilities

• Shape technical direction and lead ambiguous, cross-team Agentic SOC capabilities from concept through measurable production improvement.
• Design and build reusable capabilities spanning agent runtime, orchestration, governed tool use, context and memory, evaluation systems, trace analysis, and quality gates.
• Translate SOC, SIEM, detections, incidents, investigations, and response needs into shared mechanisms in partnership with security-domain experts.
• Design agents and supporting systems for grounded reasoning, planning, delegation, human oversight, traceability, auditability, and safe failure handling.
• Define measurable success criteria for AI capabilities, including task completion, groundedness, tool-use correctness, trajectory quality, human intervention, safety, latency, cost, and reliability.

Skills

Python

Go

Distributed systems

AI/ML

Security

Education

Bachelor's degree + 10 years related experience

Master's degree + 6 years related experience

PhD + 3 years related experience

Tools

Docker

Job description

Cisco is seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer to drive the Agentic SOC platform across Cisco and Splunk security products. You will build shared orchestration, evaluation, and memory systems enabling trusted AI agents in cloud, on‑prem, sovereign cloud, and air‑gapped environments.

You will mentor engineers, ensure reliability and compliance, and translate security needs into reusable, scalable tooling while remaining hands-on in design reviews and implementation.