Senior Software Engineering Manager
Cisco · San Jose, United States · 1mo ago
Job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received.
This position is a hybrid role, requiring the employee to work both onsite at our San Jose, CA office and remotely. Candidates should be comfortable with a flexible work arrangement that balances in-office collaboration and remote work. Specific onsite days and remote days will be coordinated with the team and manager.
Meet the Team:
Join the Automation and Response team at Splunk, a Cisco company, as we help customers respond to security events faster, more consistently, and with greater confidence. We build the automation and response capabilities that let security teams orchestrate workflows, reduce manual toil, and take action on behalf of their organizations at machine speed. Our work sits at the center of customer trust: when threats, alerts, exposures, or urgent operational issues emerge, our platform helps customers move from signal to action. The team blends product engineering, security domain expertise, cloud operations, and a strong ownership culture. This is an exciting moment to join because AI is changing how engineering teams plan, build, operate, and support software, and we are using that shift to improve both customer outcomes and team effectiveness.
Your Impact:
Lead engineering teams responsible for delivering secure, scalable Automation and Response capabilities across cloud and enterprise environments. Own execution across feature planning, release readiness, production operations, customer escalations, security response work, and long-term product quality. Drive high standards for customer trust by ensuring features are observable, supportable, reliable, safely deployable, and designed to minimize customer impact. Use AI-assisted workflows, shared skills, and automation to reduce management overhead, improve engineering judgment, accelerate triage, strengthen planning, and expand the team’s ability to deliver. Build and develop a high-accountability engineering culture where managers and engineers understand customer impact, communicate clearly, close work reliably, and continuously improve how the team operates.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 12+ years of software engineering experience building cloud, enterprise, security, infrastructure, or distributed systems.
- 5+ years of engineering management experience leading teams through planning, delivery, operations, customer escalations, and performance management.
- Experience with cloud-native development, CI/CD, test automation, observability, production operations, and secure software delivery.
- Experience using AI-assisted development, automation, agentic workflows, prompts, or custom skills to improve engineering planning, execution, triage, review, testing, operations, or management workflows.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with security automation, response workflows, orchestration platforms, case triage, or enterprise security products.
- Experience leading customer-facing SaaS or hybrid-cloud services with high expectations for reliability, release quality, supportability, and zero/minimal customer impact.
- Strong technical judgment across architecture, roadmap planning, release readiness, operational risk, observability, customer escalation handling, and root-cause prevention.
- Experience building repeatable operating systems for engineering teams, including ownership models, tracking hygiene, on-call health, customer escalation handling, and cross-team dependency management.
- Track record of hiring, coaching, and growing engineering managers, senior engineers, and technical leaders in a fast-moving environment.
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.
Message to applicants applying to work in the U.S. and/or Canada:
The starting salary range posted for this position is $214,100.00 to $309,800.00 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:
$214,100.00 - $356,300.00Non-Metro New York state & Washington state:
$192,400.00 - $317,200.00* 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.