# Senior Software Engineer

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

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## Description

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our team. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will design and build systems that combine security-relevant data, detection signals, context, and foundation models to spot and predict threats. You will prototype and test new AI features, develop an AI DevOps pipeline, architect and build a distributed platform, collaborate with product and platform teams, and contribute to the core architecture powering AI-native security operations.

Responsibilities:

- Design and build systems that combine security-relevant data, detection signals, context, and foundation models to spot and predict threats.

- Prototype and test new AI features, working closely with security SMEs and security researchers to validate real-world utility.

- Develop an AI DevOps pipeline to enable rapid experimentation with data.

- Architect and build the distributed platform that can correlate trillions of events and signals.

- Collaborate with product and platform teams to co-design AI-enhanced threat detection and prediction workflows.

- Contribute to the core architecture powering AI-native security operations.

Requirements:

- Bachelor's Degree with 7+ years of related experience or Master's with 4+ years of related experience.

- Experience with storage systems and storage access layers.

- Experience working with data platforms and/or data lakes and warehouses or streaming platforms.

- Experience building scalable backend services, APIs, and automation workflows in Python or Go.

- Experience designing agent systems that will perform coding tasks for you.

Preferred Qualifications:

- Security Data Engineering – Experience building and maintaining pipelines for ingesting, parsing, and normalizing large-scale security telemetry.

- Security Operations Experience – Understanding of security operations concepts, including attack surface management, threat analytics, detection, triage, investigation, and response.

- RAG/GraphRAG Search Implementation – Hands-on experience developing retrieval-augmented generation pipelines and working with vector databases.

- Model Integration – Skilled in crafting, testing, and optimizing training workloads for large language or special-purpose models.

- AI Evaluation & Experimentation – Capable of designing experiments to evaluate model output for accuracy, usability, performance, and cost.

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 to $245,200.00

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- Go
- storage systems
- data platforms
- backend services
- APIs
- automation workflows
- agent systems

### Nice to have
- Security Data Engineering
- Security Operations Experience
- RAG/GraphRAG Search Implementation
- Model Integration
- AI Evaluation & Experimentation

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