Principal Software Engineer, AI Defense (Hybrid)

Cisco

Full-timeHybrid

Posted

Oct 31, 2026

Closes

Jan 29, 2027

Job Description

Principal Software Engineer, AI Defense (Hybrid)

Skills relevant to this opportunity

Service-level designs — propose, document, and lead implementation across a team's domain.
Cross-cutting concerns (auth, observability, data modeling) — own across one or more services.
Production reliability and on-call response — handle autonomously across a team's services.
Performance, security, and cost trade-offs — analyze and decide on within a service or feature area.
Technical specs and design docs — author and shepherd through review for non-trivial changes.
Cross-team integrations — negotiate and deliver across organizational boundaries.