Senior Staff Software Engineer (Splunk Attack Analyzer)

Meet the Team

In this role, youll play a crucial leadership role in architecting, building, and improving systems that defend against cyber threats like phishing, malware, and malicious content delivered via URLs, emails, files, and QR codes. You will drive the development of advanced automated threat analysis tools and lead initiatives to enhance our customers security. If you're passionate about cybersecurity and ready to make a real?world impact with your expertise, we encourage you to apply. Your work will significantly strengthen cyber defenses and protect organizations from evolving threats, while mentoring and guiding the next generation of engineers.

The Splunk Attack Analyzer (SAA) team streamlines security threat analysis, providing forensic evidence and metadata to customers via API and Portal. As a Senior Staff Software Engineer, you'll lead the optimization of backend code and detection capabilities, focusing on automated URL, file analysis, and web navigation. You'll spearhead innovative solutions to overcome challenges posed by threat actors, collaborating across teams to deliver impactful results and sharing your expertise to elevate team performance.

Your Impact

• Architect, design, and implement detection-as-code and security automation features to identify threats and protect systems and data at scale.
• Lead technical investigations, analyze, triage, and respond to complex customer and detection analyst reported code-related false positives and false negatives.
• Drive enhancements and maintenance of detection capabilities in existing security platforms; contribute to the continuous improvement of detection coverage, fidelity, and performance.
• Champion secure coding best practices and ensure delivery of high-quality, maintainable, and well?tested detection code.
• Lead design and code reviews, contribute to technical documentation, and proactively share knowledge across the team and broader organization.
• Debug and resolve advanced detection issues, including tuning alerts and investigating false positives / negatives.
• Actively participate in Agile workflows, help with sprint planning, and collaborate closely with cross?functional partners.
• Shape CI / CD, testing, and automation strategies for detection pipelines in cloud environments.
• Develop deep product and threat landscape knowledge to deliver user?focused, effective security detections.
• Mentor and coach junior engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence and growth.

Key Proficiencies

Minimum Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications

Why Cisco?

At Cisco, were revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era and beyond. Weve 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 youll 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

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 Ciscos 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 Ciscos policies :

For non?sales roles, employees are also eligible to earn annual bonuses subject to Ciscos 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 :

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

Cisco is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, genetic information, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected basis.

Cisco will consider for employment, on a case by case basis, qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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