Software Engineer, Autonomous Security - ThousandEyes

Cisco; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Cisco ThousandEyes seeks a visionary Software Engineer to join the Autonomous Security team. You will design, build, and deploy AI agents that act as autonomous security researchers and first responders, moving security from human-in-the-loop to human-on-the-loop with self-healing infrastructure.

You will work to detect vulnerabilities at machine speed, integrate AI security tooling into the CI/CD lifecycle, and create defenses that scale across cloud environments.

Qualifications

• 3+ years developing production software or tooling in Python or Go.
• Hands-on Kubernetes, containerization, and CI/CD or GitOps pipelines.
• Experience applying secure coding practices and CVE remediation.

Responsibilities

• Design/build AI agents for autonomous security research and remediation.
• Develop self-healing pipelines to deploy patches and updates automatically.
• Create AI-driven logic to detect anomalies and adjust security rules in real time.
• Integrate security tooling into the CI/CD lifecycle with minimal human intervention.
• Connect scanning tools with AI agents to prioritize alerts and reduce triage work.

Skills

Python/Go

Kubernetes

CI/CD

App Security

Tools

ArgoCD

Snyk

WAF

Job description

Meet the Team

Cisco ThousandEyes is a Digital Assurance platform that empowers organizations to deliver flawless digital experiences across every network – even the ones they don’t own. Powered by AI and an unmatched set of cloud, internet and enterprise network telemetry data, ThousandEyes enables IT teams to proactively detect, diagnose, and remediate issues – before they impact end- user experiences.

ThousandEyes is deeply integrated across the entire Cisco technology portfolio and beyond, helping customers deploy at scale while also delivering AI-powered assurance insights within Cisco’s leading Networking, Security, Collaboration, and Observability portfolios.

Your Impact

We are seeking a visionary Software Engineer to join our newly formed Autonomous Security team. This is not a traditional "monitor and patch" role. In this position, you will be at the forefront of the next evolution of cybersecurity: Autonomous (AI) Security Team.

Your mission will be to design, build, and deploy AI agents that act as autonomous security researchers and first responders. You will move our security posture from "Human-in-the-loop" to "Human-on-the-loop," creating a self-healing infrastructure that identifies, tests, and mitigates vulnerabilities at machine speed.

• AI Agent Development: Build and fine-tune LLM-based agents to perform automated vulnerability research and code analysis.
• Autonomous Remediation: Develop "self-healing" pipelines that automatically generate, test, and deploy security patches and dependency updates via Kargo and ArgoCD.
• Threat Mitigation: Design AI-driven logic to detect anomalous traffic patterns and autonomously update WAF rules or service mesh configurations to neutralize external threats in real-time.
• Pipeline Integration: Integrate AI security tooling directly into our CI/CD lifecycle, ensuring that security is an automated, invisible, and frictionless part of the development process.
• Security Orchestration: Build the "nervous system" that connects security scanning tools (Snyk, Wiz, etc.) with AI agents to prioritize and resolve alerts without manual triage.

Minimum Qualifications

• Programming & Automation: 3+ years developing production software, backend services, or automated tooling using Python or Go.
• Cloud-Native & CI/CD: Hands-on experience containerizing applications, managing Kubernetes deployments, and building automated CI/CD or GitOps pipelines (e.g., ArgoCD, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI).
• Application Security: Demonstrated experience implementing secure coding practices, applying OWASP Top 10 mitigation strategies, and remediating CVEs in cloud environments.

Preferred Qualifications

• AI/LLM Engineering: Practical experience integrating Large Language Model (LLM) APIs, structured prompt workflows, or agentic frameworks into software applications.
• Familiarity with vector databases (Pinecone, Milvus) for security context retrieval.
• Familiarity with "Policy as Code" (OPA/Rego).

Why Cisco?

At Cisco, we’re revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era – and beyond. We’ve been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint.

Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you’ll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere.

We are Cisco, and our power starts with you.