Principal Software Engineer - AI Security Posture Management

Cisco

15 - 20 years

32 - 40 Lacs

bengaluru

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software engineer kubernetes python sre ai cloud platforms data architecture cloud native microservices incident response cloud analytics spm iam product management apis ec2 saas compliance aws ai security architecture

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Job Description

Your Impact

We are seeking a Principal Engineer to lead the architecture and development of our AI Security Posture Management (AI SPM) product. Youll partner with product management, security researchers, data/ML teams, and platform engineers across Cisco to define the end-to-end technical vision, drive architectural decisions, and ship secure, scalable services that our customers trust.
Architect and Build: Design, implement, and own a secure, scalable, multi-tenant cloud-native AI SPM platform, driving development, data architecture, and system hardening.
Drive Reliability and Operational Excellence: Ensure platform reliability, performance, and operational quality through best practices in resiliency, observability, and incident response.
Mentor and Collaborate: Mentor engineering teams, set high technical standards, and collaborate across Cisco to integrate with key platforms and drive business alignment.

Minimum Qualifications

Leadership & Architecture: 15+ years designing large-scale, distributed cloud platforms, with emphasis on secure, event-driven, high-throughput systems.
Technical Expertise: Proficient in Go, Python, AWS (EKS, EC2, IAM, etc.), and cloud-native development with microservices, APIs, and real-time pipelines.
Security Focus: Built and hardened security features, implemented zero-trust, and architected multi-account AWS solutions.
Data & Analytics: Designed data architectures for high-volume telemetry and analytics using both streaming and batch patterns.
Operational Excellence: Drove reliability, autoscaling, observability, and incident response in SaaS environments.
Mentorship & Collaboration: Mentored engineers, led reviews, and collaborated across teams to drive integration and compliance.

Preferred Qualifications

Prior experience leading platform migrations or greenfield 0?1 initiatives at scale.
Experience with observability stacks, performance tuning, and SRE practices
Knowledge of Kubernetes (EKS), service meshes, API gateways, and Envoy-based architectures.

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