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Senior Staff Software Engineer, Splunk Security Core AI at Cisco

Lead the design and delivery of AI-powered Agentic SOC capabilities for Cisco and Splunk. Build trusted agents, orchestration, evaluation, and security systems for large-scale deployments.

USUnited StatesCACalifornia
$214,100 – $309,800 / year
HybridFull-timeSeniorEnglish RequiredFull-stack EngineerSoftware Engineer
CloudGoPythonSplunk

Description

  • Set technical direction and lead Agentic SOC initiatives from initial concept through production enhancement
  • Build reusable runtimes and platform capabilities for agent orchestration, governed tools, context, memory, evaluation, trace analysis, and quality gates
  • Convert SOC, SIEM, detection, incident, investigation, and response requirements into shared platform mechanisms
  • Create agents that support grounded reasoning, planning, delegation, human oversight, traceability, auditability, and safe failure recovery
  • Define measurable AI performance standards covering task completion, groundedness, tool accuracy, trajectory quality, human intervention, safety, latency, cost, and reliability
  • Drive metrics-based development with datasets, evaluations, production traces, feedback, experiments, and regression controls
  • Relate AI quality measurements to production performance and customer results
  • Design architectures for public cloud, on-premises, sovereign cloud, and air-gapped deployments
  • Implement identity propagation, authorization, tenant isolation, policy controls, privacy, auditability, and permission-aware actions
  • Assess and integrate technologies across Cisco and Splunk
  • Use AI tools across the software development lifecycle with human review and appropriate security, privacy, and intellectual-property safeguards
  • Investigate issues spanning models, prompts, tools, data, orchestration, services, infrastructure, and product integrations
  • Contribute directly to implementation and design reviews while improving engineering standards and mentoring senior engineers

Requirements

  • At least 6 years of experience developing, testing, or operating production software
  • Experience building or operating large-scale distributed systems or AI-enabled production systems
  • Programming experience in Python or Go
  • Bachelor’s degree with 10 years of related experience, Master’s degree with 6 years, or PhD with 3 years
  • Preferred: knowledge of LLM and agentic-system concepts such as grounding, planning, tool use, memory, human oversight, evaluation, tracing, and regression analysis
  • Preferred: experience defining AI metrics, creating evaluation and experimentation loops, and linking offline findings to production behavior and customer outcomes
  • Preferred: experience delivering software in public cloud, on-premises, sovereign cloud, or air-gapped environments
  • Preferred: familiarity with SOC, SIEM, detections, incidents, investigations, response, identity, policy, privacy, and auditability
  • Preferred: record of leading cross-team technical initiatives, adopting shared technologies, mentoring senior engineers, and applying AI responsibly throughout the software development lifecycle

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • 401(k) plan with Cisco matching contributions
  • Paid parental leave
  • Short- and long-term disability coverage
  • Basic life insurance
  • Potential Cisco restricted stock unit grants that vest with continued employment
  • 10 paid holidays per full calendar year
  • One floating holiday for non-exempt employees
  • Paid birthday day off
  • Paid year-end holiday shutdown
  • Four paid personal wellness days
  • 16 paid vacation days per full calendar year for non-exempt employees
  • Flexible vacation program with no defined limit for eligible exempt employees
  • 80 hours of sick time upon hire and each January 1, with up to 80 hours carried forward
  • Additional paid leave for critical or emergency family matters
  • Optional 10 paid volunteer days per full calendar year
  • Annual bonuses for non-sales roles, subject to Cisco policies
  • Performance-based incentive pay for employees on sales plans
  • Opportunities to develop and contribute on a global scale

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