Senior Staff SWE — Agentic SOC AI Platform Architect

Cisco Systems, Inc; San Jose (CA); Hybrid; USD 214,000 - 310,000; Full time

Job summary

Cisco Systems, Inc. is seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer for the Security Core AI team in a hybrid role with on-site requirements in San Jose or San Francisco.

You will build shared platforms, orchestration, and evaluation systems for trusted AI agents across Cisco and Splunk security products, spanning cloud, on-prem, and air-gapped environments. You will lead cross-team initiatives, define AI metrics, ensure reliability and auditability, and mentor engineers while delivering durable

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, detection, incident, investigation, 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-enabled production systems

Education

Bachelor's degree + 10 years

Master's degree + 6 years

PhD + 3 years

Job description

Cisco Systems, Inc. is seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer for the Security Core AI team in a hybrid role with on-site requirements in San Jose or San Francisco.

You will build shared platforms, orchestration, and evaluation systems for trusted AI agents across Cisco and Splunk security products, spanning cloud, on-prem, and air-gapped environments. You will lead cross-team initiatives, define AI metrics, ensure reliability and auditability, and mentor engineers while delivering durable