Technical Leader, Software Engineering – Agentic AI Platform (Identity & Security)
About The Position
The AI Software & Platform Team designs and operates the core platform infrastructure connecting Cisco enterprise product dashboards with agentic AI capabilities. Its multi-service architecture includes agentic orchestrators and high-throughput API gateways that integrate AI capabilities into the Cisco ecosystem for real-time operational workflows at scale. The team works with Go and Python microservices and focuses on high-scale innovation and security resilience. As a Senior Technical Lead, you will own architectural direction and cross-service technical execution for a distributed AI platform, ensuring robust identity and multi-tenancy. You will author end-to-end technical specifications, break complex designs into executable work streams across engineering teams, strengthen service-to-service communication through cryptographic identity signing and zero-trust verification, and lead CVE remediation and production triage. You will establish engineering standards and mentor senior engineers to advance the platform’s technical maturity.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical discipline and 12+ years of professional software engineering experience; or a master’s degree and 8+ years; or a PhD and 5+ years; or an equivalent combination of education and verified industry software engineering experience.
- At least 7 years designing, building, and operating high-concurrency distributed backend microservices in production, with experience in both Go and Python.
- At least 4 years designing and implementing enterprise authentication and authorization systems, such as OAuth 2.0/OIDC, JWT, RFC 8693 token exchange, or mTLS.
- Experience leveraging code generation tools and agents for software development.
- Experience building or integrating LLM orchestration frameworks, agentic runtimes such as ReAct, tool-calling interfaces, or Model Context Protocol servers.
- Experience deploying and operating services on Kubernetes with automated secret management and distributed tracing such as OpenTelemetry/APM.
Nice To Haves
- Experience designing API gateways, gRPC/protobuf service definitions, and shared client libraries across large monorepos.
- Experience with distributed workflow engines such as Temporal and real-time event streaming such as SSE, WebSockets, or Kafka.
- Experience with feature flag lifecycle management and targeting using tools such as LaunchDarkly.
- Experience leading remediation programs in collaboration with internal offensive security or red-team penetration testing groups.
- Experience integrating vector databases such as Weaviate, Milvus, or Qdrant and relational databases such as PostgreSQL/pgx at scale.
Responsibilities
- Own architectural direction and cross-service technical execution for a distributed AI platform.
- Ensure robust identity and multi-tenancy.
- Author end-to-end technical specifications for platform capabilities.
- Decompose complex system designs into executable work streams across multiple engineering teams.
- Strengthen service-to-service communication by deploying cryptographic identity signing and zero-trust verification.
- Lead structured CVE remediation and production triage.
- Establish high engineering standards.
- Mentor senior engineers.
Benefits
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- 401(k) plan with Cisco matching contribution
- Paid parental leave
- Short- and long-term disability coverage
- Basic life insurance
- Cisco restricted stock unit grants may be available, subject to eligibility and continued employment.
- 10 paid holidays per full calendar year and one floating holiday for non-exempt employees
- Paid birthday day off, year-end holiday shutdown, and four paid personal wellness days
- Non-exempt employees receive 16 days of paid vacation per full calendar year, accrued according to the stated policy.
- Exempt employees participate in a flexible vacation time-off program, subject to availability and business limitations.
- 80 hours of sick time on hire and each January 1, with up to 80 unused hours carried forward.
- Additional paid time away may be requested for critical or emergency family issues.
- Optional 10 paid volunteer days per full calendar year
- Annual bonuses may be available for non-sales roles, subject to Cisco policies.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
