2 days ago
San Francisco, CA, USA or San Jose, CA, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$155k - $223k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, test, and operate services, data pipelines, and platform components for AI-enabled security detection and investigation.
- Build backend services, APIs, and automation workflows primarily using Python.
- Process and normalize security telemetry including endpoint events, network activity, authentication records, and cloud audit data.
- Develop correlation, enrichment, retrieval, and context-generation capabilities for explainable security findings.
- Prototype AI features using existing models, retrieval systems, embeddings, and agent frameworks.
- Create evaluations covering accuracy, reliability, latency, cost, and operational usefulness.
- Participate in design reviews, code reviews, automated testing, documentation, production readiness, troubleshooting, observability, and reliability improvements.
- Collaborate with product managers, security experts, researchers, and engineers, including participation in production support or on-call responsibilities where applicable.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
- At least 4 years of professional software engineering experience.
- Experience developing backend services, APIs, data-processing systems, or distributed software.
- Experience with Python and Python-based systems.
- Experience with software design, testing, debugging, code review, version control, and CI/CD practices.
- Experience working with structured or semi-structured event data, logs, metrics, or telemetry.
- Preferred experience with data ingestion, parsing, normalization, enrichment, correlation pipelines, distributed storage, data lakes, warehouses, streaming systems, or event-driven architectures.
- Preferred experience with security operations, SIEM, TDIR, threat detection, threat hunting, triage, or incident response workflows.
- Preferred experience with retrieval-augmented generation, vector search, embeddings, knowledge graphs, model integrations, or AI/ML evaluations.
- Preferred experience with cloud platforms, containers, Kubernetes, observability, production service operations, or AI-assisted development tools.
- Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration skills, with the ability to learn security operations concepts and incorporate security-expert feedback.
Benefits
- Hybrid work requiring three days per week in a San Jose or San Francisco office for candidates local to those areas.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) with Cisco matching contribution, paid parental leave, disability coverage, and basic life insurance, subject to eligibility.
- Potential eligibility for Cisco restricted stock unit grants and annual bonuses for non-sales roles.
- Paid holidays, birthday time off, year-end shutdown, personal wellness days, vacation or flexible vacation time, sick time, family emergency leave, and optional volunteer days.
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About Cisco
Cisco designs and sells networking, security, and collaboration platforms for enterprises, service providers, and governments, spanning routers and switches, Wi‑Fi, firewalls, zero‑trust, observability, and cloud-managed IT (Meraki) plus Webex. Its business model mixes hardware, software subscriptions, and support/consulting services. Founded in 1984 and headquartered in San Jose, California, Cisco is a public company traded on Nasdaq and serves customers across data centers, campuses, and service provider networks.