# Technical Leader, Software Engineering – Agentic AI Platform (Identity & Security)

**Company**: Cisco
**Location**: San Jose, California
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $256,900.00 to $333,400.00
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

The AI Software & Platform Team at Cisco designs and operates the core platform infrastructure that connects Cisco’s enterprise product dashboards with intelligent, agentic AI capabilities.

As a Senior Technical Lead, you will own the architectural direction and cross-service technical execution for our distributed AI platform to ensure robust identity and multi-tenancy.

**Responsibilities**

- Author end-to-end technical specifications for platform capabilities to decompose complex system designs into executable work streams across multiple engineering teams.

- Harden service-to-service communication by deploying cryptographic identity signing and zero-trust verification to enhance fleet security.

- Lead structured CVE remediation and production triage to maintain system stability and security resilience.

**Requirements**

- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related technical discipline + 12+ years of professional software engineering experience; OR Master’s degree with 8+ years; OR PhD with 5+ years; OR an equivalent combination of education and verified industry software engineering experience.

- Minimum of 7 years designing, building, and operating high-concurrency, distributed backend microservices in production, with experience in both Go and Python.

- Minimum of 4 years designing and implementing enterprise authentication and authorization systems (e.g., OAuth 2.0 / OIDC, JWT, RFC 8693 token exchange, mTLS).

- Experience leveraging code gen tools and agents for software development.

- Experience building or integrating LLM orchestration frameworks, agentic runtimes (e.g., ReAct), tool-calling interfaces, or Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers.

- Experience deploying and operating services on Kubernetes with automated secret management and distributed tracing (OpenTelemetry/APM).

**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

- 10 paid holidays per full calendar year

- 1 paid day off for employee’s birthday

- Paid year-end holiday shutdown

- 4 paid days off for personal wellness

- 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year for non-exempt employees

- Flexible vacation time off program for exempt employees

- 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter

- Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer

**Salary**

- The starting salary range posted for this position is $256,900.00 to $333,400.00

## Skills

### Required
- Go
- Python
- Distributed Systems Engineering
- Identity & Security
- AI Software Development Lifecycle (AI-SDLC)
- Agentic Systems
- Cloud Infrastructure
- Kubernetes
- OpenTelemetry/APM
- OAuth 2.0 / OIDC
- JWT
- RFC 8693 token exchange
- mTLS
- LLM orchestration frameworks
- ReAct
- Model Context Protocol (MCP)

### Nice to have
- API gateways
- gRPC/protobuf service definitions
- shared client libraries
- distributed workflow engines
- real-time event streaming
- feature flag lifecycle management
- vector databases
- relational databases

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