Cisco

Software Engineer - Security Content

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San Jose, CA, USAMid Level / Senior
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$155k - $223k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, test, and maintain software features, services, tools, and applications for security content engineering workflows.
  • Own moderate to complex features from scoping and design through implementation, validation, release, and operational support.
  • Build backend systems, automation, data-processing workflows, and tooling that support security content workflows and customer-facing capabilities.
  • Improve tooling, test automation, documentation, release processes, and operational workflows.
  • Build AI-assisted tools to reduce manual security content mapping work and improve mapping consistency.
  • Troubleshoot customer-impacting issues, security vulnerabilities, release blockers, and production-quality defects.
  • Participate in design reviews, code reviews, sprint planning, technical discussions, and cross-team execution.
  • Mentor junior engineers through code reviews, design feedback, documentation, and technical guidance.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in STEM with 5+ years of experience or a master's degree in STEM with 3+ years of experience.
  • Programming experience with Python or Go.
  • Experience with automated testing, CI/CD workflows, source control, code review, and release practices.
  • Experience with software design, data structures, algorithms, REST APIs, debugging, testing, or maintainable code.
  • Experience designing and delivering backend systems, applications, automation frameworks, data-processing workflows, or platform tooling.
  • Preferred experience with Splunk, Splunk Enterprise Security, SPL, security analytics, detection engineering, or security content workflows.
  • Preferred familiarity with cybersecurity concepts, data normalization, security schemas, CIM, or OCSF.
  • Preferred experience maintaining developer tooling, automation pipelines, test frameworks, or publishing and release systems.
  • Preferred experience using AI-assisted development tools or automation to improve engineering productivity, mapping accuracy, or security content operations.
  • Preferred understanding of secure coding, vulnerability remediation, dependency scanning, and software supply chain security.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work arrangement requiring 3 days per week onsite at the San Jose, Cisco office.
  • Starting salary range of $155,000 to $222,600 for U.S. and/or Canada locations, excluding incentive compensation, equity, and benefits.
  • Benefits include medical, dental, vision, 401(k) with Cisco matching contribution, paid parental leave, disability coverage, and basic life insurance.
  • Employees may be eligible 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, family emergency leave, and optional paid volunteer days.

Tech Stack

GoPythonSplunk

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About Cisco

10,000+ employees

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.

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