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From the employer's careers site First seen 10 Nov 2026

Senior Software Engineer

Cisco San Jose, California senior full-time

Salary

$167,700 - $245,200 per year

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Description

We're building an enterprise platform for AI agents , the shared foundation that lets engineering teams build, deploy, and run agents that are secure, reliable, and cost-effective at scale.

As a Senior Software Engineer on the AI Platform, you will play a crucial role in advancing how the organization builds and operates AI agents , by contributing to the architecture, design, development, and operation of a modern, enterprise-scale agent platform.

Responsibilities:

  • Contribute to the design and delivery of the platform, from first design through production operation.
  • Write code, review designs and pull requests, and take on hard technical problems.
  • Build reusable platform capabilities that other teams can depend on, with clear interfaces, versioning, and documentation.
  • Uphold engineering standards for quality, security, observability, and evaluation.
  • Improve latency, reliability, and cost for production AI workloads.
  • Run what you build: help define SLOs, take part in on-call, and participate in incident reviews.
  • Work with technologies like Python, LangGraph/LangChain, FastAPI, MCP, Kafka, PostgreSQL/pgvector, OpenTelemetry, Docker, and Kubernetes.
  • Partner with architects, product managers, security, and domain teams to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
  • Share knowledge and mentor peers through code reviews, design discussions, and documentation.

Requirements:

  • Bachelor's degree +7 or a Masters +4 years of experience in building and running production backend or distributed systems.
  • Experience shipping LLM-powered applications or agents to production, and handling failure.
  • Experience with Python, and experience designing frameworks, SDKs, or platform APIs that other engineers build on.
  • Experience with distributed systems fundamentals: API design, asynchronous and event-driven processing, streaming, caching, rate limiting, and fault tolerance.

Benefits:

  • Medical, dental and vision insurance
  • 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution
  • Paid parental leave
  • Short and long-term disability coverage
  • Basic life insurance
  • Paid time away
  • Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer

Salary Range: $167,700.00 - $245,200.00

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Skills

Required

Nice to have

  • clear written communication
  • agent development
  • agent interoperability
  • context engineering
  • models and LLM infrastructure
  • backend and APIs
  • evaluation and observability
  • AI safety and governance
  • security
  • cloud-native infrastructure

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