Cisco

Distinguished Engineer

Cisco$267K — $339K *
Enterprise Technology
11 - 15 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in a technical field or equivalent experience.
  • 15+ years in building/architecting enterprise software systems.
  • Experience with data-intensive and AI-assisted software design.
  • Proficient in writing/reviewing production-quality code.
  • Expertise in defining architecture for workflows and platform capabilities.
  • Proven ability to shape technical direction across engineering teams.

Responsibilities

  • Define technical direction for Splunk's AgenticOps foundations.
  • Develop AI workflows utilizing various data contexts for customer support.
  • Collaborate with leaders to identify and prototype high-value product features.
  • Create reusable platform patterns for access, audit logs, and policy enforcement.
  • Drive AI-assisted engineering transformation across the software lifecycle.

Benefits

  • Remote work flexibility with a preference for West Coast hours.
  • Opportunity to influence the technical direction of significant projects.
  • Engagement in cutting-edge AI and operational software development.
  • Collaboration with senior engineering leaders and cross-functional teams.
  • Work on innovative solutions impacting enterprise clients.
Full Job Description
The application window is expected to close on: 07/22/2026
Job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received.

Distinguished Engineer, Splunk AgenticOps and AI Engineering Transformation

Location: Remote, West Coast hours preferred

Your Impact

Define the technical direction for AgenticOps foundations across Splunk's unified security and observability portfolio. Shape governed AI workflows that use telemetry, topology, identity, ownership, risk, network context, and product knowledge to help customers investigate, triage, respond, and remediate with confidence. Partner with product and engineering leaders to identify the highest-value product wedges, guide prototypes, clarify architectural tradeoffs, and move ideas into shippable capabilities. Develop reusable platform patterns for MCP/tool access, evidence chains, permissions, audit-ability, approvals, policy enforcement, evaluation, and safe action. Drive AI-assisted engineering transformation across planning, coding, review, testing, release readiness, support, incident learning, and operations so teams gain execution leverage without lowering Splunk's quality bar.

Minimum Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.


  • 15+ years of experience building, leading, or architecting large-scale software systems used by enterprise customers.


  • Experience designing or operating data-intensive, distributed, AI-assisted, agentic, or operational software systems.


  • Production software engineering experience, including writing or reviewing production-quality code.


  • Experience defining architecture for platform capabilities such as workflow orchestration, tool access, permissions, audit logs, approvals, policy enforcement, or safe automation.


  • Experience delivering technical direction that changes how multiple engineering teams build, test, support, operate, evaluate, or ship software.


Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience with AI-assisted development, agentic workflows, LLM application architecture, AI evaluation, prompt/tool orchestration, or human-in-the-loop systems.


  • Experience with telemetry, observability, security analytics, time-series systems, event processing, or data platforms.


  • Experience with graph systems, entity identity, semantic layers, topology, temporal modeling, or operational context modeling.


  • Experience building products for cloud, hybrid, and customer-managed deployment environments.


  • Ability to influence across engineering, product, architecture, field, executive, and customer-facing teams while mentoring senior engineers through ambiguous technical decisions.

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Net Income
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Founded
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