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From the employer's careers site First seen 28 Oct 2026

Senior Software Engineer

Cisco San Francisco, California Hybrid senior full-time

Salary

$167,700 to $245,200 per year

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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

Nice to have

  • Security Data Engineering
  • Security Operations Experience
  • RAG/GraphRAG Search Implementation
  • Model Integration
  • AI Evaluation & Experimentation

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