Software Engineer - Cloud Platform- Splunk

Cisco Systems, Inc.; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 170,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Life insurance

Vision insurance

Parental leave

Paid holidays

Sick time

401(k)

Job summary

Cisco Systems, Inc. in San Jose, CA is seeking an experienced software engineer to design and operate AI-enabled security data pipelines and backend services.

You will build APIs, process telemetry, and prototype AI features while collaborating with security SMEs, researchers, and product teams. You will contribute to scalable data platforms, define tests, ensure reliability, and participate in design reviews, CI/CD, and production readiness efforts, applying Python and modern engineering

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field with 4+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Experience developing backend services, APIs, data-processing systems, or distributed software.
• Experience with Python and Python-based systems.
• Experience with software development fundamentals, including design, testing, debugging, code review, version control, and CI/CD practices.
• Experience working with structured or semi-structured event data, logs, metrics, or telemetry.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, test, and operate a defined service, data pipeline, or platform component supporting AI-enabled security detection and investigation.
• Build reliable backend services, APIs, and automation workflows, primarily using Python and other modern engineering technologies.
• Process and normalize security telemetry such as endpoint events, network activity, authentication records, or cloud audit data.
• Contribute to correlation, enrichment, retrieval, and context-generation capabilities that produce useful and explainable security findings.
• Prototype focused AI features using existing models, retrieval systems, embeddings, or agent frameworks.
• Create measurable tests and evaluations for accuracy, reliability, latency, cost, and operational usefulness.
• Participate in technical design reviews, code reviews, automated testing, CI/CD, documentation, and production-readiness activities.
• Troubleshoot issues across software, data, and service integrations and help improve system observability and reliability.
• Partner with product managers, security SMEs, researchers, and engineers to clarify requirements and deliver incremental improvements.
• Participate in production support or on-call responsibilities, where applicable to the team's operating model.

Skills

Python

Backend services

APIs

CI/CD

Telemetry data

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field

Tools

Kubernetes

Cloud platforms

Job description

life insurance, vision insurance, parental leave, paid holidays, sick time, 401(k)

The application window is expected to close on: 12/30/2026 Meet the Team

We are an agile engineering team building AI-native capabilities for cybersecurity operations. Our work combines security telemetry, distributed systems, data platforms, machine learning, and automation to help defenders identify, investigate, and respond to threats more effectively.

You will work with software engineers, security subject-matter experts, security researchers, product managers, and platform teams. We value practical experimentation, reliable engineering, thoughtful collaboration, and technology that creates measurable value for security analysts.

Your Impact

• Design, implement, test, and operate a defined service, data pipeline, or platform component supporting AI-enabled security detection and investigation.
• Build reliable backend services, APIs, and automation workflows, primarily using Python and other modern engineering technologies.
• Process and normalize security telemetry such as endpoint events, network activity, authentication records, or cloud audit data.
• Contribute to correlation, enrichment, retrieval, and context-generation capabilities that produce useful and explainable security findings.
• Prototype focused AI features using existing models, retrieval systems, embeddings, or agent frameworks.
• Create measurable tests and evaluations for accuracy, reliability, latency, cost, and operational usefulness.
• Participate in technical design reviews, code reviews, automated testing, CI/CD, documentation, and production-readiness activities.
• Troubleshoot issues across software, data, and service integrations and help improve system observability and reliability.
• Partner with product managers, security SMEs, researchers, and engineers to clarify requirements and deliver incremental improvements.
• Participate in production support or on-call responsibilities, where applicable to the team's operating model.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field with 4+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Experience developing backend services, APIs, data-processing systems, or distributed software.
• Experience with Python and Python-based systems.
• Experience with software development fundamentals, including design, testing, debugging, code review, version control, and CI/CD practices.
• Experience working with structured or semi-structured event data, logs, metrics, or telemetry.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building data ingestion, parsing, normalization, enrichment, or correlation pipelines.
• Familiarity with distributed storage, data lakes, warehouses, streaming systems, or event-driven architectures.
• Experience with security operations, SIEM, TDIR, threat detection, threat hunting, triage, or incident response workflows.
• Experience with retrieval-augmented generation, vector search, embeddings, knowledge graphs, or model integrations.
• Experience designing evaluations for AI/ML systems, including quality, safety, latency, cost, and user trust.
• Experience with cloud platforms, containers, Kubernetes, observability, or production service operations.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted software development or agentic engineering tools.
• Experience developing secure, privacy-conscious, and resilient enterprise software.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and the ability to collaborate across engineering and non-engineering disciplines.
• Ability to learn security operations concepts and apply feedback from security experts to software designs.

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.

Message to applicants applying to work in the U.S. and/or Canada: The starting salary range posted for this position is $155,000.00 to $222,600.00 and reflects the projected salary range for new hires in this position in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including incentive compensation*, equity, or benefits. Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location, market conditions, job-related skillset, experience, qualifications, education, certifications, and/or training. The full salary range for certain locations is listed below. For locations not listed below, the recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.

U.S. employees are offered benefits, subject to Cisco's plan eligibility rules, which include medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, paid parental leave, short and long-term disability coverage, and basic life insurance. Please see the Cisco careers site to discover more benefits and perks. Employees may be eligible to receive grants of Cisco restricted stock units, which vest following continued employment with Cisco for defined periods of time.

• 10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees
• 1 paid day off for employee's birthday, paid year-end holiday shutdown, and 4 paid days off for personal wellness determined by Cisco
• Non-exempt employees** receive 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year, accrued at rate of 4.92 hours per pay period for full-time employees
• Exempt employees participate in Cisco's flexible vacation time off program, which has no defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use (subject to availability and some business limitations)
• 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter, and up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward from one calendar year to the next
• Additional paid time away may be requested to deal with critical or emergency issues for family members
• Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer

For non-sales roles, employees are also eligible to earn annual bonuses subject to Cisco's policies.

Employees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, which is split between quota and non-quota components, subject to the applicable Cisco plan. For quota-based incentive pay, Cisco typically pays as follows:

• .75% of incentive target for each 1% of revenue attainment up to 50% of quota;
• 1.5% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 50% and 75%;
• 1% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 75% and 100%; and
• Once performance exceeds 100% attainment, incentive rates are at or above 1% for each 1% of attainment with no cap on incentive compensation.

For non-quota-based sales performance elements such as strategic sales objectives, Cisco may pay 0% up to 125% of target. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid.

The applicable full salary ranges for this position, by specific state, are listed below:

New York City Metro Area: $155,000.00 - $256,000.00

Non-Metro New York state & Washington state: $138,100.00 - $227,900.00

* For quota-based sales roles on Cisco's sales plan, the ranges provided in this posting include base pay and sales target incentive compensation combined.

** Employees in Illinois, whether exempt or non-exempt, will participate in a unique time off program to meet local requirements.