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Base Salary
$216k - $281k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define and drive the architecture of scalable, high-performance platform services that protect AI applications and agents in real time.
- Remain hands-on in designing and implementing solutions to complex and ambiguous technical problems.
- Shape LLM inference and model-hosting strategy while balancing latency, cost, and scale for enterprise workloads.
- Partner with Product, Threat Research, and Operations to deploy production-grade features and capabilities.
- Act as a technical thought leader and mentor, establish engineering standards, and communicate strategy and trade-offs to senior leadership.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree and 10+ years, master’s degree and 8+ years, or PhD and 3+ years of software engineering experience.
- Experience architecting and delivering large-scale distributed systems.
- Experience with cloud-native backend development and modern cloud infrastructure.
- Prior technical leadership across teams while remaining hands-on.
- Preferred: experience with LLM inference, generative AI systems, AI/ML infrastructure, security products or AI security, SaaS, and hybrid enterprise deployments.
Benefits
- Hybrid role based out of Cisco’s San Jose office.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) with matching contribution, paid parental leave, disability coverage, and basic life insurance, subject to eligibility.
- Potential Cisco restricted stock unit grants and annual bonuses for non-sales roles.
- Paid holidays, floating holiday, birthday leave, year-end shutdown, wellness days, vacation or flexible time off, sick time, and family emergency leave, subject to applicable policies.
- Optional paid volunteer time.
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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.