Senior Software Engineer, Security Core AI - Agentic SOC

Cisco

Confirmed live today High trust
Closes in 2 days Hybrid

Quick summary

Work type
Hybrid
Location
Seattle, WASan Jose, CASan Francisco, CA
Salary
$149,100–$218,100 / yr
Employment
Full-time
Posted
4 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live today
Closes
Sep 30, 2026 (soon)

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How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $191k
This role $184k
$139k most similar roles pay here $245k

This role pays less than 59% of similar roles. Most pay $161,521–$220,412 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $184k versus about $191k for comparable roles.

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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 · Senior Software Engineer, Security Core AI - Agentic SOC

Sr Software Engineer, Security Core AI – Agentic SOC (hybid) joins the Security Core AI team to build trusted agentic capabilities for detecting, investigating, and responding to threats. This role involves developing shared AI systems including agent platforms, orchestration, governed tool use, evaluation frameworks, and production trace analysis. The engineer will design and deliver complex components across shared security runtimes while ensuring reliable performance in cloud, on-premises, sovereign, and air-gapped environments. Key responsibilities include building reusable capabilities like context memory, shared APIs, and experimentation systems while managing trade-offs between quality, latency, and cost. Candidates should possess experience with Python or Golang and expertise in distributed systems, LLM concepts such as grounding and planning, and security domains including SOC, SIEM, and identity management. The role focuses on transforming evolving AI technologies into production-grade tools for complex cybersecurity environments.

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What you'll do

  • Build and improve shared AI systems including agent platforms, orchestration, and governed tool use for security teams.
  • Develop production-grade AI capabilities across cloud, on-premises, sovereign cloud, and air-gapped environments.
  • Design and implement complex components for the Security AI runtime, evaluation frameworks, and trace analysis.
  • Build reusable features such as agent execution, context and memory, shared APIs, and experimentation systems.
  • Develop agents for grounded reasoning, planning, delegation, human oversight, and safe failure handling.
  • Use golden datasets, production traces, and regression gates to evaluate and improve AI behavior.
  • Implement security controls including identity propagation, authorization, tenant isolation, and policy enforcement.
  • Write maintainable code while contributing to architecture, testing standards, and technical documentation.

What we're looking for

  • At least 5 years of experience developing, testing, and/or operating production software.
  • Experience in software engineering in production environments using Python and/or Golang.
  • Experience developing and operating production AI, agentic, or distributed systems (preferred).
  • Demonstrated ability to design, implement, debug, and maintain complex, production-grade systems (preferred).
  • Experience with LLM and agentic-system concepts such as grounding, retrieval, planning, and tool use (preferred).
  • Experience delivering containerized or cloud-native software across public, on-premises, or air-gapped environments (preferred).
  • Familiarity with SOC, SIEM, detections, incidents, investigations, and response (preferred).
  • Experience evaluating or adopting shared technologies in large organizations using Cisco, Splunk, or similar platforms (preferred).

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