Senior Staff Software Engineer, Threat Analytics

Senior Staff Software Engineer, Threat Analytics

The application window is expected to close on: 02/25/2026. Job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received.

Meet the Team

Splunk Security is a unified cloud-based platform that brings together security data, analytics, and operations under one common work surface where security teams can holistically detect, manage, investigate, hunt, contain, and remediate threats - all from one place - resulting in faster, more efficient and more effective security operations. Our service collects security threats at scale from external sources, detecting unknown threats by running innovative stream processing on vast amounts of internally collected data and signals.

We are a passionate team who cares deeply about our customers, our teammates, and you. You'll be able to meet customers, build empathy toward their experiences, get a first-person view of the state-of-the-art Security Operations Centers, and collaborate across teams to define and craft new products that streamline analysts' investigations.

Your Impact

As a Senior Staff Software Engineer, Threat Analytics, you will lead the design, development, and delivery of software that directly supports security analysts globally. Our Engineering Team operates across multiple time zones: Central European, Eastern, Central, and Pacific Time.

• Own and be accountable for the design, development and operation of new product features.
• Lead team design and architectural discussions.
• Build reliable, scalable, and high-performance applications.
• Debug and resolve customer-reported issues, delivering effective solutions.
• Participate in on-call rotations, post-incident reviews, and other operational activities to ensure service reliability.
• Learn, explore, and integrate new technologies into the team’s workflow.
• Mentor junior members of the team with an eye toward their future career growth.

Minimum Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in software development, with a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Experience in programming languages such as Java and Python with a solid understanding of data structures, algorithms, RESTful APIs, and microservices.
• Hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes, container technologies and cloud platforms (AWS).
• Experience with an Agile DevOps engineering environment that effectively uses CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitLab, etc.).
• Experience building and architecting web applications, services, and APIs.

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong oral and written communication skills, including a demonstrated ability to prepare documentation and presentations for technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience with technologies in our stack: Poetry, Pytest, Cypress etc.
• Proficiency in application monitoring, log management, metrics/telemetry processing, and alerting tools.
• Experience with cloud platforms (Azure, GCP).
• Ability to prioritize and complete multiple tasks with minimal direction, a sense of intellectual curiosity, humility, accountability, and positivity.
• Proven ability to mentor junior engineers and influence technical decisions across teams, fostering collaboration and technical excellence.

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.

Key skills/competency

• Software Development
• Threat Analytics
• Security Operations
• Cloud Computing
• Microservices Architecture
• Java/Python Programming
• Kubernetes/Docker
• CI/CD Pipelines
• System Design
• Mentorship