Software Developer (hybrid)

The application window is expected to close on: 11/15/2026

This position is a hybrid role, requiring the employee to work both onsite 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

The Splunk AI Canvas team builds AI-powered experiences that help customers investigate, understand, and act on data across Splunk products. Our work spans reusable React and TypeScript user-interface components, Splunk application integration, cloud services, secure identity flows, and AI-enabled workflows. We also design, build, and evolve agents and agentic experiences that reason over data, use tools, coordinate multi-step tasks, and help customers move from insight to action. We operate at the intersection of observability, security, search, analytics, and generative AI, collaborating closely with product, design, and partner engineering teams. We are a fast-moving, cross-functional engineering team where developers can influence product direction while delivering software used in real customer workflows.

Your Impact

Build and enhance production-quality features for Splunk AI Canvas, from technical design through release and ongoing operation. Develop responsive and accessible user experiences using TypeScript, JavaScript, React, and modern web engineering practices while integrating with backend services and Splunk APIs. Design and implement AI agents and agentic workflows that use data, tools, and multi-step reasoning to simplify customer investigations and operational tasks. Create secure, reliable solutions that support authenticated, multi-tenant customer environments and AI-powered workflows. Test, debug, monitor, and improve software across the development lifecycle while collaborating with product managers, designers, and engineers across Splunk and Cisco.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or a related technical field plus 5 years of related experience; or Master’s degree plus 3 years of related experience.
• Experience developing and delivering production software using TypeScript or JavaScript and React or a comparable modern web framework.
• Experience designing or integrating RESTful or APIs in a cloud-based or distributed software product.
• Experience writing automated unit and integration tests and using source control and continuous integration tools in an agile software development environment.
• Experience debugging, troubleshooting, and resolving software defects in development or production environments

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience developing products for observability, cybersecurity, search, analytics, or data-platform users.
• Experience with Python, Java, or Go and with containerized or cloud-native applications.
• Knowledge of designing, building, testing, evaluating, or operating AI agents and agentic workflows.
• Experience creating agentic experiences using large language models, tool use, orchestration, Model Context Protocol (MCP), or related technologies.
• Fluency with AI-assisted development tools such as Codex, Claude, GitHub Copilot, or similar, and the ability to use them effectively to improve engineering productivity, code quality, and documentation

Cisco may use AI Tools to review candidate-provided details—such as skills, experience, location, and education—to determine how closely candidates match job criteria. AI Tools are intended to guide and support the recruitment team in identifying and prioritizing candidates but are not used in isolation or without human judgment. For more information about Cisco’s use of AI please see the Job Candidate Privacy Statement found here.

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 $116,700.00 to $165,800.00 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 ofunused sick timecarried forwardfrom one calendar yearto 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:

$155,000.00 - $256,000.00

Non-Metro New York state & Washington state:

$138,100.00 - $227,900.00

* 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.