# Technical Lead, AI-Native Software Engineering (hybrid)

**Company**: Cisco
**Location**: San Jose, California
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $171,600.00 to $245,000.00
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

The Security Workflow Engineering team at Cisco is looking for a Technical Lead to set the technical direction across their team's full body of work. The team is responsible for engineering and delivering tools that help discover, mitigate, and report on security engineering across every application, platform, and service that Cisco delivers to its customers.

The ideal candidate will have extensive hands-on software engineering experience, with a track record of making architectural decisions for systems that mattered and held up. They will be able to guide software engineers on making sound technical and architectural choices, sharing the judgment that comes from having made , and learned from , those choices many times before.

Responsibilities:

- Set technical direction across the team's portfolio of work and be the person engineers escalate to when a decision genuinely needs deep expertise.

- Take the lead on the hardest technical problems , the ones that call for a strongly reasoned, optimized, and defensible architecture.

- Guide software engineers on making sound technical and architectural choices, sharing the judgment that comes from having made , and learned from , those choices many times before.

- Collaborate with technical leaders on other teams to reason through cross-cutting problems and drive shared decisions forward, with urgency.

- Stay hands-on enough to be credible: reviewing designs and code where it matters, not managing from a distance.

Requirements:

- BS or MS degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field, or demonstrated equivalent experience.

- Extensive, hands-on software engineering experience, with a track record of making architectural decisions for systems that mattered and held up.

- Deep expertise in software engineering - design architecture, implementation, scale - sufficient to propose and defend highly optimized, well-reasoned technical designs under scrutiny.

- Demonstrated experience guiding or mentoring other engineers on technical and architectural decision-making, without formal management responsibility.

- Fluency in AI-native software development practices.

Preferred Qualifications:

- Experience building tools in the security space , product/application security, threat intelligence, compliance/governance.

- Experience designing APIs, tools, or services that AI agents use directly.

- Experience setting up AI-native practices for an AI-native software engineering team.

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.

## Skills

### Required
- AI-native software development
- software engineering
- architectural decisions
- technical leadership

### Nice to have
- security space
- API design
- AI-native practices

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