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