2 days ago
Base Salary
$257k - $333k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the architectural direction and cross-service technical execution of a distributed AI platform.
- Author end-to-end technical specifications and decompose complex designs into executable work streams across multiple engineering teams.
- Design, build, and operate high-concurrency distributed backend microservices using Go and Python.
- Implement enterprise authentication, authorization, cryptographic identity signing, zero-trust verification, and multi-tenancy capabilities.
- Build or integrate LLM orchestration frameworks, agentic runtimes, tool-calling interfaces, and Model Context Protocol servers.
- Deploy and operate services on Kubernetes with automated secret management and distributed tracing.
- Lead CVE remediation, production triage, and security-resilience initiatives.
- 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 10+ years, a PhD plus 7+ years, or an equivalent combination of education and verified industry experience.
- At least 8 years designing, building, and operating production distributed backend microservices, with proficiency in 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 using code-generation tools and agents in the software development lifecycle.
- Experience building or integrating LLM orchestration frameworks, agentic runtimes such as ReAct, tool-calling interfaces, or Model Context Protocol servers.
- Hands-on experience deploying and operating Kubernetes services with automated secret management and OpenTelemetry/APM distributed tracing.
- Preferred experience designing API gateways, gRPC/protobuf service definitions, and shared client libraries across large monorepos.
- Preferred experience with Temporal, SSE, WebSockets, Kafka, LaunchDarkly, vector databases, PostgreSQL, and pgx.
- Preferred experience leading remediation programs with offensive security or red-team penetration testing groups.
Benefits
- The starting salary range is $256,900.00 to $333,400.00, excluding incentive compensation, equity, and benefits.
- Benefits may include medical, dental, and vision insurance; a 401(k) plan with Cisco matching; paid parental leave; disability coverage; and basic life insurance.
- Eligible employees may receive Cisco restricted stock units and annual bonuses subject to company policies.
- Paid time off includes holidays, floating holidays, birthday and wellness days, vacation or flexible vacation time, sick time, and additional family emergency leave subject to applicable policies.
- Employees may receive up to 10 paid volunteer days per 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.