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About the Role

Join the Splunk IAM Engineering team, playing a central role in governing, trusting, and managing AI agents across their lifecycle. The team is committed to technical excellence, mutual support, and continuous growth, securing and scaling enterprise-level identity and access management solutions in an environment built on trust and collaboration.

Responsibilities

Translate and influence strategic vision into technical direction, managing workstreams and shaping the software engineering roadmap.
Drive critical architectural decisions with a focus on security, scalability, and reliability, including threat modeling.
Mentor peers and team members, fostering continuous learning through design sessions and technical demos.
Maintain an active presence in the codebase, building prototypes, implementing high-risk components, and writing production-grade code.
Proactively identify, prioritize, and resolve risks in production systems, designing monitoring tools and leading postmortems.
Build and maintain collaborative, cross-functional relationships, accurately scoping work and negotiating outcomes.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related STEM field with 8+ years of experience, or Master’s degree with 6+ years of relevant experience, or PhD with 3+ years of relevant experience.
8+ years of software engineering experience including writing, testing, and deploying production-grade code.
Demonstrated experience in enterprise identity and access management (IAM) standards (SAML, OIDC, OAuth) and their implementation.
Demonstrated experience in at least one backend language (Go, Java, or Python) and contributing to complex codebases.
Demonstrated experience designing, building, and delivering highly scalable, secure, and distributed systems, including diagnosing system bottlenecks and memory leaks.

Skills

Secure coding principles
Application security
Threat modeling
Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
Containerized orchestration platforms
Distributed data systems
Relational databases
Non-relational databases
Asynchronous messaging
Queuing architectures
Event-streaming architectures
Observability
Distributed tracing
Diagnostic frameworks

Location

U.S.
Canada

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

8+ years of software engineering experience
6+ years of relevant experience (Master's)
3+ years of relevant experience (PhD)

Education Level

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related STEM field
Master’s degree
PhD

Salary/Compensations

$151,600.00 - $222,400.00 (U.S. and/or Canada)
$186,900.00 - $307,800.00 (New York City Metro Area)
$166,300.00 - $274,100.00 (Non-Metro New York state & Washington state)

Benefits

Medical insurance
Dental insurance
Vision insurance
401(k) plan with Cisco matching contribution
Paid parental leave
Short-term disability coverage
Long-term disability coverage
Basic life insurance
10 paid holidays per full calendar year
1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees
1 paid day off for employee’s birthday
Paid year-end holiday shutdown
4 paid days off for personal wellness
16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year (non-exempt)
Flexible vacation time off program (exempt)
80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st
Up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward
Additional paid time away for critical or emergency family issues
Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer
Annual bonuses (non-sales roles)
Performance-based incentive pay (sales roles)
Grants of Cisco restricted stock units

About the Company

Cisco is revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era.
Innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together.
Solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint.
Opportunities to grow and build are limitless.
Work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale.

Equal Opportunity

Message to applicants applying to work in the U.S. and/or Canada: The starting salary range posted for this position is $151,600.00 to $222,400.00 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:
$186,900.00 - $307,800.00
Non-Metro New York state & Washington state:
$166,300.00 - $274,100.00
- 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.