Principal Engineer | AI and Security | 13+ years

About the role

The Infrastructure & Security CTO organization is shaping the future of Cisco’s core products by driving AI-driven, cloud-native, security-first architectures across networking and security platforms.

What you'll do

• Work at the intersection of LLMs, Zero Trust security, and cloud-native systems , delivering innovations that improve threat detection, enable secure access
• Integrate AI/ML and LLMs into platforms for threat detection, anomaly analysis, and intelligent policy enforcement
• Design security-first architectures , including firewall, Zero Trust / secure access , and runtime security (e.g., Tetragon / eBPF )
• Build cloud-native platform capabilities leveraging Kubernetes and multi-cloud environments
• Develop large-scale telemetry, data pipelines, and real-time inference systems to power AI-driven insights

What you need

• Java
• Python
• Kubernetes
• C++
• Microservices
• Go
• Any graduate

Good to have

• AWS
• GCP
• Azure
• LLMs
• Firewalls
• Cloud security