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Base Salary
$257k - $333k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the architectural direction and cross-service technical execution of a distributed agentic AI platform.
- Author end-to-end technical specifications and decompose complex designs into executable work streams across engineering teams.
- Design and implement identity, authentication, authorization, and multi-tenancy capabilities.
- Harden service-to-service communication with cryptographic identity signing and zero-trust verification.
- Lead CVE remediation, production triage, and security resilience initiatives.
- Build or integrate LLM orchestration frameworks, agentic runtimes, tool-calling interfaces, and MCP servers.
- Deploy and operate services on Kubernetes with automated secret management and distributed tracing.
- Mentor senior engineers and establish high engineering standards.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical discipline plus 12+ years of professional software engineering experience; alternatively, a master’s degree plus 8+ years, a PhD plus 5+ years, or an equivalent combination of education and verified industry software engineering experience.
- At least 7 years designing, building, and operating high-concurrency distributed backend microservices in production using both Go and Python.
- At least 4 years designing and implementing enterprise authentication and authorization systems, including technologies such as OAuth 2.0, OIDC, JWT, RFC 8693 token exchange, or mTLS.
- Experience leveraging code generation tools and agents for software development.
- Experience with API gateways, gRPC/protobuf service definitions, shared client libraries, distributed workflow engines, real-time event streaming, feature flags, vector databases, and relational databases is preferred.
- Experience collaborating with offensive security or red-team penetration testing groups is preferred.
Benefits
- Starting salary range of $256,900.00 to $333,400.00 for U.S. and/or Canada locations, excluding incentive compensation, equity, and benefits.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance; 401(k) with Cisco matching contribution; paid parental leave; short- and long-term 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, floating holiday, birthday day off, year-end shutdown, wellness days, vacation or flexible time off, sick time, and additional family emergency leave, subject to applicable policies.
- Optional 10 paid volunteer days per full calendar year.
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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.