Software Engineer - Security Content

About this role

The application window is expected to close on: 09/25/2026 Job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received .

This is a hybrid position requiring 3 days a week onsite at our San Jose, Cisco office

Meet the Team

The Security Content Engineering team builds and maintains the systems, applications, data schema, and automation that support Splunk Security content. The team plays a key role in helping customers detect, investigate, and respond to threats by improving how security content is developed, validated, published, and consumed. The team partners closely with Product Management, Architects, Threat Research, Customer Success, and other engineering teams across Splunk and Cisco. We work in a collaborative environment that values strong technical execution, practical problem solving, ownership, and continuous improvement. In this role, you will help design, build, test, and maintain software that supports security content workflows, data normalization, automation, release quality, and customer-facing capabilities across the Splunk security portfolio.

Your Impact • Design, develop, test, and maintain high-quality software features, services, tools, and applications that support security content engineering workflows.

• Own moderate to complex features from scoping and design through implementation, validation, release, and operational support.

• Build a deep understanding of product architecture, customer use cases, deployment patterns, and security content workflows to deliver practical, high-value solutions.

• Improve team efficiency and engineering quality by improving tooling, test automation, documentation, release processes, and operational workflows.

• Use AI-assisted engineering practices to accelerate design, coding, testing, and review while maintaining high software quality.

• Build AI-assisted tools that reduce manual security content mapping work and improve mapping consistency.

• Troubleshoot and resolve customer-impacting issues, security vulnerabilities, release blockers, and production-quality defects.

• Participate in design reviews, code reviews, sprint planning, technical discussions, and cross-team execution.

• Mentor junior engineers through code reviews, design feedback, documentation, and technical guidance.

Minimum Qualifications • Bachelors degree in STEM with 5+ years of experience or Master’s degree in STEM with 3+ years of experience

• Programming experience with languages such as Python or Go.

• Experience with automated testing, CI/CD workflows, source control, code review, and release practices.

• Experience in software design, data structures, algorithms, REST APIs, debugging, testing, or writing maintainable code.

• Experience designing and delivering backend systems, applications, automation frameworks, data processing workflows, or platform tooling.

Preferred Qualifications • Experience with Splunk platform, Splunk Enterprise Security, SPL, security analytics, detection engineering, or security content workflows.

• Familiarity with cybersecurity concepts, data normalization, security schemas, or frameworks such as CIM or OCSF.

• Experience building or maintaining developer tooling, automation pipelines, test frameworks, or publishing/release systems.

• Experience using AI-assisted development tools or automation to improve engineering productivity, mapping accuracy, or security content operations.

• Understanding of secure coding practices, vulnerability remediation, dependency scanning, and software supply chain security.

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 $155,000.00 to $222,600.00 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

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