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Splunk, a Cisco company, is building a safer and more resilient digital world with an end-to-end full stack platform made for a hybrid, multi-cloud world. Leading enterprises use our unified security and observability platform to keep their digital systems secure and reliable. Our customers love our technology, but it's our caring employees that make Splunk stand out as an amazing career destination. No matter where in the world or what level of the organization, we approach our work with kindness. So bring your work experience, problem-solving skills and talent, of course, but also bring your joy, your passion and all the things that make you, you. Come help organizations be their best, while you reach new heights with a team that has your back.

Role Summary

Your role as a Software Engineering Technical Leader is crucial in revolutionizing cyber threat defense, particularly against phishing and malware distributed through malicious URLs, emails, files and QR codes. Your expertise will directly improve our customers' security posture! If you're passionate about advancing cybersecurity technology and making a significant impact in automated threat analysis, we invite you to apply. Your work will be key in shaping future cyber defense strategies and protecting organizations from data breaches and cyber-attacks!

Meet the Team

The Splunk Attack Analyzer (SAA) team streamlines security threat analysis, providing forensic evidence and metadata to customers via API and Portal. As a Software Engineering Technical Leader, you'll orchestrate the optimization of backend code and detection capabilities, focusing on automated URL, file analysis and web navigation. You'll architect innovative solutions to overcome challenges posed by the threat actors.

Your Impact

• Serves as technical lead for a team or key domain, driving a 6+ month roadmap focused on features, operations, observability, and supportability to enhance customer experience

• Actively engaged in technical work, including code reviews and hands-on contributions

• Improves test health and code coverage through processes, tools, and mentorship

• Mentor developers on technical and soft skills, including roadmap development and advocacy

• Leads system design discussions, ensuring non-functional requirements (scale, security, usability, etc.) are addressed and documented

• Communicates effectively as a technical authority in broader architectural and tech forums

• Drives complex projects and operational improvements end-to-end, partnering with PMs on prioritization, execution, and continuous feedback

• Translates customer needs and operational insights into system simplifications that speed development and increase value

• Introduces innovative tools and methods to measurably improve troubleshooting efficiency

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field; or equivalent practical experience. Advanced degrees are a plus.

• 12+ years of professional experience in software engineering, with a deep focus on cybersecurity, distributed systems, and modern web technologies.

• Recognized technical authority in Python and Go, with extensive experience in building and scaling production-grade systems using these languages and ecosystems.

• Expertise in security architecture, threat modeling, vulnerability assessment, and the design of secure-by-default systems and processes.

• Deep knowledge of software architecture and design patterns, with a track record of defining long-term architectural strategy and guiding complex, multi-team implementations.

• Extensive experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure), including securing cloud-native applications, infrastructure-as-code, and multi-region deployments.

• Proficient in modern development practices and tooling (e.g., Git, CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes), with an ability to influence DevSecOps processes across teams.

• Exceptional debugging, profiling, and performance optimization skills across the entire tech stack.

• Experience leveraging data analytics, large-scale data processing, or machine learning to enhance security and threat detection capabilities.

• Proven ability to communicate complex technical ideas to diverse stakeholders, from engineers to executives, and to lead technical direction across teams.

• Demonstrated success in mentoring senior and junior engineers, fostering a culture of learning, and driving engineering excellence across an organization.

• Understanding of threat intelligence platforms and security products specific to threat detection and mitigation.

• Ability to analyze and remediate security risks using advanced tools with AI/ML capabilities for dynamic security data and personalized security workflows.

• Significant experience designing and leading the implementation of large-scale, resilient, distributed systems with high availability and strong security guarantees.

• Track record of driving cross-functional technical initiatives and influencing product and organizational strategy through thought leadership.

Preferred Qualifications

• Ability to think creatively to solve complex technical challenges in cybersecurity.

• Strong analytical skills with a focus on performance optimization and scalability.

• Excellent communication skills, able to explain sophisticated technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.

• Proactive problem-solver with a strong sense of ownership and drive for results.

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 $210,600.00 to $305,100.00 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:

$210,600.00 - $350,800.00

Non-Metro New York state & Washington state:

$189,300.00 - $312,200.00

* 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.