Software Engineer, Cloud Platform

Cisco

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Hybrid

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Work type
Hybrid
Location
San Jose, CASan Francisco, CA
Employment
Full-time
Posted
6 days ago
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Confirmed live today
Closes
Nov 30, 2026

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Cisco Systems is the world''s leading networking technology company, designing and manufacturing networking hardware, telecommunications equipment, and cybersecurity solutions for businesses and governments. Industry: Networking Technology & Cybersecurity

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TL;DR · Software Engineer, Cloud Platform

Software Engineer – Cloud Platform- Splunk joins an agile engineering team building AI-native capabilities for cybersecurity operations. You will design, implement, and operate service components, data pipelines, and backend APIs to support AI-enabled security detection and investigation. Day-to-day responsibilities include processing and normalizing security telemetry like endpoint events and cloud audit data, while contributing to correlation and context-generation capabilities. You will prototype AI features using retrieval systems, embeddings, and agent frameworks while ensuring reliability through automated testing and CI/CD practices. The role requires proficiency in Python, distributed systems, and data-processing technologies. You will solve technical problems involving security telemetry, machine learning, and automation to help defenders identify and respond to threats more effectively within a complex cybersecurity operations environment.

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What you'll do

  • Design, implement, test, and operate services, data pipelines, or platform components for AI-enabled security detection.
  • Build reliable backend services, APIs, and automation workflows using Python and modern engineering technologies.
  • Process and normalize security telemetry including endpoint events, network activity, and cloud audit data.
  • Develop correlation, enrichment, and context-generation capabilities to produce explainable security findings.
  • Prototype AI features using existing models, retrieval systems, embeddings, or agent frameworks.
  • Create measurable tests and evaluations for accuracy, reliability, latency, cost, and operational usefulness.
  • Troubleshoot issues across software, data, and service integrations while improving system observability.
  • Participate in production support and on-call responsibilities as required by the team's operating model.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
  • 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 development fundamentals including design, testing, debugging, code review, version control, and CI/CD.
  • Experience working with structured or semi-structured event data, logs, metrics, or telemetry.
  • Experience building data ingestion, parsing, normalization, enrichment, or correlation pipelines (preferred).
  • Experience with security operations, SIEM, TDIR, threat detection, or incident response workflows (preferred).

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