Software Tech Leader, Splunk IAM

Meet the Team

Join the Splunk IAM Engineering team. As AI adoption accelerates and autonomous agents are created at unprecedented speed, identity has become a critical control plane for enterprise security. Our team plays a central role in ensuring these agents are properly governed, trusted, and managed across their lifecycle. We are deeply committed to technical excellence, mutual support, and continuous growth, dedicated to securing and scaling our enterprise-level identity and access management solutions. We believe that the best engineering happens in an environment built on trust, psychological safety, and open collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Translate and influence our strategic vision into a clear technical direction. Manage workstreams holistically, lead projects that span multiple teams, and actively shape our software engineering roadmap.
• Drive critical architectural decisions with a deep focus on security, scalability, and reliability. Actively contribute to the threat modeling of our products to ensure robust security.
• Actively mentor peers and team members, fostering a warm culture of continuous learning. Facilitate knowledge-sharing initiatives such as design sessions, brownbags, and technical demos.
• Maintain a steady, active presence in the codebase. Regularly dedicate focused time to building technical prototypes, personally implementing high-risk components, and writing clean, production-grade code that sets the standard for the team.
• Proactively identify, prioritize, and resolve risks in production systems. Design and implement robust monitoring tools to increase system visibility, lead constructive postmortems, and ensure reliable on-call support.
• Build and maintain collaborative, cross-functional relationships. Scope complex work accurately, communicate delivery trade-offs, and negotiate with partners to align on 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—including SAML, OIDC, and OAuth—and hands-on experience with their real-world implementation through secure coding principles, application security, and threat modeling.
• Demonstrated experience in at least one backend language (such as Go, Java, or Python) and the ability to contribute to complex, multi-service codebases.
• Demonstrated experience designing, building, and delivering highly scalable, secure, and distributed systems including diagnosing and resolving low-level system bottlenecks, memory leaks, and complex concurrency issues.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with Claude and other generative AI tools to enhance development quality, accelerate throughput, and optimize engineering workflows.
• Expertise in designing and implementing identity governance frameworks, ensuring secure lifecycle management, policy enforcement, and trust verification across both human and non-human (machine, service, or AI agent) identities.
• Ability to rapidly prototype and build Proof of Concepts (PoCs) for complex integrations, supported by hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and containerized orchestration platforms.
• Deep understanding of distributed data systems, including relational and non-relational databases, as well as asynchronous messaging, queuing, or event-streaming architectures.
• Experience designing and implementing comprehensive observability, distributed tracing, and diagnostic frameworks to ensure system reliability and deep operational visibility.
• Active contribution to knowledge sharing within the wider professional community (e.g., technical blogs, publications, or presenting at external events).

About the Company

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.

Pay

The starting salary range for this position is $151,600.00 to $222,400.00 for 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 specific locations is 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, the ranges provided include base pay and sales target incentive compensation combined.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution
• Paid parental leave
• Short and long-term disability coverage
• Basic life insurance
• 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
• 4 paid days off for personal wellness
• Non-exempt employees receive 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year, accrued at a rate of 4.92 hours per pay period for full-time employees
• Exempt employees participate in Cisco’s flexible vacation time off program, with no defined limit on vacation time (subject to availability and business limitations)
• 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter, with 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
• Eligibility to earn annual bonuses (for non-sales roles) subject to Cisco’s policies
• Eligibility to receive grants of Cisco restricted stock units, which vest following continued employment with Cisco for defined periods of time

Employees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, split between quota and non-quota components, subject to the applicable Cisco plan.