This role pays more than
73%
of similar roles. Most pay
$174,960–$231,150
— the shaded band above.
At the midpoint, this role pays about
$227k
versus about
$203k
for comparable roles.
Based on 240 similar postings.
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About Cisco
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
Cisco currently has
196 open roles
on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs
$167,700–$245,200
across 196 roles with salary data.
Staff Software Engineer - AI/Security Platform
The Staff Software Engineer - AI/Security Platform joins an agile team to design and build systems that integrate security-relevant data, detection signals, and foundation models to predict and identify threats. This role involves prototyping new AI features for decoding events, predicting anomalies, and developing an AI DevOps pipeline for rapid experimentation with knowledge bases and context memory. You will architect a distributed platform capable of correlating trillions of events into explainable findings for triage resolution agents within an Agentic SOC. Key responsibilities include building scalable backend services and automation workflows using Python, managing CI/CD pipelines, and implementing RAG or GraphRAG search. Required skills include expertise in distributed systems, data platforms, security telemetry fluency, and experience with large language models, GNNs, and GCNs to solve complex cybersecurity challenges through automated detection and prediction workflows.
What does a Software Engineer earn in California?
Median $214000 from 775 postings across 63 companies.
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