# Senior Software Engineer

**Company**: Cisco
**Location**: San Jose, California
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $167,700.00 - $245,200.00
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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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
- Python
- LangGraph/LangChain
- FastAPI
- MCP
- Kafka
- PostgreSQL/pgvector
- OpenTelemetry
- Docker
- Kubernetes

### 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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