Senior Software Engineer, Security Core AI

Cisco

. Build and improve shared AI systems for Cisco Security’s Agentic SOC .

Posted 9/15/2026full-timeSeattle • California • United StatesSenior💰 $149,100 - $250,900 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in developing and operating production AI systems, with a strong focus on Python and Golang programming. Capable of designing secure, maintainable software solutions while ensuring compliance with privacy and authorization standards.

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Python DevelopmentGolang DevelopmentProduction AI SystemsCloud-Native Software DeliverySecurity and Privacy Compliance

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Hard Skills

Software DevelopmentDebuggingComplex Systems MaintenanceBehavioral EvaluationRegression AnalysisContainerizationCloud ArchitectureTelemetry AnalysisAgentic System ConceptsFunctional Code Writing

Soft Skills

MentoringCollaborationTechnical Expertise Sharing

Tools & Technologies

Cisco TechnologiesSplunkSIEMSOCPublic Cloud PlatformsOn-Premises SolutionsAir-Gapped Environments

Industry Keywords

AI SystemsAgentic SystemsIdentity PropagationPolicy EnforcementAudit-abilityHuman OversightIncident ResponseData PrivacyTenant IsolationOrchestration

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudDistributed SystemsPythonSplunkGo

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Build and improve shared AI systems for Cisco Security’s Agentic SOC
Design and deliver components across Security AI runtime, orchestration, evaluation, and applied quality
Own substantial features from requirements and design through implementation, testing, integration, deployment, and continuous improvement
Contribute to architecture and technical direction using prototypes, evaluations, telemetry, and production evidence
Build reusable capabilities for agent execution, governed tool use, context and memory, shared APIs, telemetry, evaluation, trace analysis, and experimentation
Develop agents and supporting systems for grounded reasoning, planning, delegation, human oversight, traceability, and safe failure handling
Improve AI behavior using datasets, offline and online evaluations, production traces, trajectory analysis, regression gates, and model, prompt, or tool experiments
Design for cloud, on-premises, sovereign cloud, and air-gapped environments
Implement identity propagation, authorization, tenant isolation, policy enforcement, privacy, audit-ability, and permission-aware actions
Integrate and promote adoption of shared Cisco and Splunk technologies
Leverage AI tools across the software development lifecycle with human validation and security, privacy, and intellectual-property controls
Diagnose failures across models, prompts, tools, data, orchestration, services, infrastructure, and product integrations
Write functional, maintainable, secure code and contribute to architecture, testing, review, and technical documentation standards
Collaborate across product, domain, deployment, quality, release, and support teams
Mentor engineers, share technical expertise, and improve engineering practices and knowledge sharing

Requirements

What you’ll need

5+ years of experience developing, testing, and/or operating production software
Experience in production software engineering
Experience developing in Python and/or Golang
Experience developing and operating production AI, agentic, or distributed systems preferred
Experience designing, implementing, debugging, and maintaining complex production-grade systems preferred
Experience with LLM and agentic-system concepts, including grounding and retrieval, planning, delegation, tool use, human oversight, behavioral evaluation, and regression analysis preferred
Experience delivering containerized or cloud-native software across public cloud, on-premises, sovereign cloud, or air-gapped environments preferred
Familiarity with SOC, SIEM, detections, incidents, investigations, response, identity, authorization, policy, privacy, tenancy, and audit-ability preferred
Experience evaluating, integrating, or adopting shared technologies across large organizations preferred
Experience with Cisco, Splunk, or comparable security, data, and AI platforms preferred
Proven responsible use of AI-assisted engineering throughout the software development lifecycle preferred

Benefits

Comp & perks

Medical, dental and vision insurance
401(k) plan with Cisco matching contribution
Paid parental leave
Short- and long-term disability coverage
Basic life insurance
Cisco restricted stock unit grants may be available
10 paid holidays per full calendar year
1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees
Paid birthday day off
Paid year-end holiday shutdown
4 paid personal wellness days
16 days of paid vacation per full calendar year for non-exempt full-time employees
Flexible vacation time off program with no defined limit for eligible exempt employees
80 hours of sick time off provided on hire and each January 1st
Up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward
Additional paid time away for critical or emergency family issues
Optional 10 paid volunteer days per full calendar year
Annual bonuses may be available for non-sales roles