Senior Software Engineer

Cisco is a leading technology company focused on revolutionizing data and infrastructure connectivity in the AI era. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join their Incident Command Software Engineering team to build and extend next-generation incident detection and response services, collaborating closely with internal security teams.

Responsibilities:

• Apply AI tools in software engineering, test, and delivered solutions as needed to meet business goals, while evaluating AI-generated code for correctness, security, maintainability, and fit with the codebase
• Lead medium features and projects from technical design through completion, including delegation, review, delivery tracking, production readiness, and ongoing support
• Work independently with minimal guidance to determine the best technical approach for ambiguous engineering problems, stakeholder needs, and security operations priorities
• Translate internal security operations needs into secure, maintainable software designs, APIs, automations, no-code or low-code workflows, and services that improve reliability and stakeholder outcomes
• Create, troubleshoot, and manage data pipelines that move, transform, enrich, and supply data for incident detection, response, automation, reporting, and operational decision-making
• Develop clean, tested software consistent with Cisco Design Thinking Principles, secure coding practices, privacy expectations, and team engineering standards
• Write functional code and unit tests without guidance, enabling scale, reliability, and velocity in product releases
• Perform thorough code reviews that identify immediate and larger-scope issues, improve maintainability, and strengthen secure development practices
• Contribute to feature-level threat modeling and make practical security, reliability, scalability, and delivery trade-offs
• Prototype and deliver automation, tooling, low-code/no-code capabilities, integrations, and service improvements that strengthen detection, prevention, response, and security operations capabilities
• Identify and recommend improvements to the software development lifecycle, agile engineering practices, CI/CD, testing, observability, and operational support models
• Collaborate with domain experts in Incident Command and across Cisco to enhance, improve, or modify security methods in both on-prem and cloud environments
• Identify opportunities for multiple products, services, data sources, or workflow platforms to work together to create value for stakeholders
• Monitor and improve production application environments, including problem identification, troubleshooting, escalation, and timely resolution of reliability and availability issues
• Serve as an escalation point for production and on-call issues as needed; lead postmortems and write root cause analysis for significant incidents
• Coordinate across teams on estimates, timelines, specifications, dependencies, blockers, and trade-offs; track milestones, communicate progress, and provide remediation plans when needed
• Serve as an expert on multiple functional components, sharing knowledge across teams through documentation, code reviews, design discussions, demos, presentations, or other forums
• Mentor peers and more junior engineers through technical guidance, code reviews, documentation, and practical coaching

Requirements:

• Typically 7 or more years of related software engineering experience, or equivalent experience through advanced degree, technical depth, or demonstrated impact
• Experience writing software in one or more languages such as Python, Go, Java, or similar in a Linux or Unix-based environment
• Demonstrated experience using AI coding generators responsibly, including the ability to evaluate and review generated code, identify problems, and show a deep understanding of the relevant codebase
• Experience applying AI technologies to solutions that meet stakeholder, operational, or customer needs
• Expertise with no-code or low-code systems such as Corteza, including designing workflows, configuring applications, troubleshooting issues, and integrating them with surrounding systems
• Ability to create, troubleshoot, and manage data pipelines that support operational analytics, automation, reporting, or security workflows
• Strong secure development practices, including secure coding principles, code review, privacy awareness, and feature-level threat modeling
• Experience designing and implementing RESTful APIs, services, integrations, automation, full-stack capabilities, or low-code/no-code extensions
• Experience with CI/CD, containerized builds and deployments, and orchestration platforms such as Docker Swarm, Kubernetes, or similar technologies
• Comfortable developing solutions that efficiently use, move, transform, and supply large amounts of data in support of security operations
• Experience troubleshooting production services, improving reliability, participating in or supporting on-call rotations, and leading postmortems or root cause analysis
• Ability to work independently with minimal guidance, clarify ambiguous requirements, identify paths around blockers, and communicate status, risks, remediation plans, and trade-offs clearly
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders, understand project or department needs, and deliver high-quality engineering outcomes across team boundaries
• Ability to mentor peers and more junior engineers, raise engineering quality, and share knowledge across teams through code reviews, documentation, and technical guidance
• Experience in security operations, incident detection and response, detection engineering, threat analysis, or adjacent cybersecurity domains
• Experience building cloud-native services, operational tooling, workflow applications, or low-code/no-code platforms in hybrid, on-prem, or cloud environments
• Experience with observability, monitoring, alerting, and reliability practices for production services
• Experience with data pipelines, event-driven architectures, stream processing, ETL workflows, or large-scale security analytics
• Familiarity with Agile software delivery, Kanban, continuous integration, continuous delivery, and modern engineering workflows