Senior Software Engineer (Remote)

The application window is expected to close on: 10/10/2026

This is a remote position open to candidates located within the United States.

Candidates located in the San Jose, CA or San Francisco, CA are requested to work onsite a few days a week.

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Meet the Team

Join the Automation and Response team at Splunk, a Cisco company, as we help customers respond to security events faster, more consistently, and with greater confidence. We build the automation and response capabilities that let security teams orchestrate workflows, reduce manual toil, and take action on behalf of their organizations at machine speed. Our work sits at the center of customer trust: when threats, alerts, exposures, or urgent operational issues emerge, our platform helps customers move from signal to action. The team blends product engineering, security domain expertise, cloud operations, and a strong ownership culture. This is an exciting moment to join because AI is changing how engineering teams plan, build, operate, and support software, and we are using that shift to improve both customer outcomes and team effectiveness.

Your Impact

Design and deliver secure, scalable Automation and Response capabilities that help customers investigate and respond to security events faster across cloud and enterprise environments. Take technical ownership of complex features from design and implementation through release readiness and production support. Improve product quality by building systems that are observable, reliable, supportable, and safe to deploy, while resolving customer escalations and security issues with urgency and care. Use AI-assisted development and automation to accelerate engineering work, strengthen testing, and improve troubleshooting. Guide technical decisions, mentor other engineers, and collaborate with product managers and cross-functional teams to deliver solutions that earn customer trust. Participate in rotating on-call duties to diagnose escalations and issues that arise in the production environment and work on solutions.

Minimum Qualifications

- Bachelors + 7 years of related experience OR Masters + 4 years of related experience OR PhD + 2 year of related experience
- Applied programming experience in one of these languages: Python, Go, C++
- Experience designing, delivering, and supporting reliable software in production, including cloud services.
- Previous background with distributed systems, asynchronous processing, and performance troubleshooting.
- Experience with automated testing, code reviews, CI/CD pipelines, and delivery models (Dockers, Containers, Kubernetes, etc.)

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience with web frameworks such as Django or Flask, or front-end technologies such as JavaScript and React.
- Familiarity with security operations, SIEM, Automation and Response, or Splunk integrations.
- Experience with Linux systems, networking, or deploying software in enterprise environments.
- Familiarity with security and compliance requirements such as FedRAMP, SOC 2, or FIPS.
- Ability to autonomously own complex technical initiatives and design decisions while partnering seamlessly with engineers and product managers.

Why Cisco?

At Cisco, we’re revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era – and beyond. We’ve been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint.

Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you’ll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere.

We are Cisco, and our power starts with you.

Message to applicants applying to work in the U.S. and/or Canada:

The starting salary range posted for this position is $167,700.00 to $245,200.00 and reflects the projected salary range for new hires in this position in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including incentive compensation*, equity, or benefits.

Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location, market conditions, job-related skillset, experience, qualifications, education, certifications, and/or training. The full salary range for certain locations is listed below. For locations not listed below, the recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.

U.S. employees are offered benefits, subject to Cisco’s plan eligibility rules, which include medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, paid parental leave, short and long-term disability coverage, and basic life insurance. Please see the Cisco careers site to discover more benefits and perks.  Employees may be eligible to receive grants of Cisco restricted stock units, which vest following continued employment with Cisco for defined periods of time.

U.S. employees are eligible for paid time away as described below, subject to Cisco’s policies:

- 10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees
- 1 paid day off for employee’s birthday, paid year-end holiday shutdown, and 4 paid days off for personal wellness determined by Cisco
- Non-exempt employees** receive 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year, accrued at rate of 4.92 hours per pay period for full-time employees
- Exempt employees participate in Cisco’s flexible vacation time off program, which has no defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use (subject to availability and some business limitations)
- 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter, and up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward from one calendar year to the next
- Additional paid time away may be requested to deal with critical or emergency issues for family members
- Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer

For non-sales roles, employees are also eligible to earn annual bonuses subject to Cisco’s policies.

Employees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, which is split between quota and non-quota components, subject to the applicable Cisco plan. For quota-based incentive pay, Cisco typically pays as follows:

- .75% of incentive target for each 1% of revenue attainment up to 50% of quota;
- 1.5% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 50% and 75%;
- 1% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 75% and 100%; and
- Once performance exceeds 100% attainment, incentive rates are at or above 1% for each 1% of attainment with no cap on incentive compensation.

For non-quota-based sales performance elements such as strategic sales objectives, Cisco may pay 0% up to 125% of target. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid.

The applicable full salary ranges for this position, by specific state, are listed below:

New York City Metro Area:
$167,700.00 - $282,000.00

Non-Metro New York state & Washington state:
$149,100.00 - $250,900.00

* For quota-based sales roles on Cisco’s sales plan, the ranges provided in this posting include base pay and sales target incentive compensation combined.

** Employees in Illinois, whether exempt or non-exempt, will participate in a unique time off program to meet local requirements.