The application window is expected to close on: 10/30/2026 The successful applicant will be performing work on US Government classified environments, and therefore, must be a U.S. Person (i.e., U.S. citizen, U.S. national, lawful permanent resident, asylee, or refugee). This position will perform work that the U.S. government has specified can only be performed by a U.S. citizen on U.S. soil. The successful applicant must have a current US Government TS/SCI with Full Scope Polygraph Clearance. Note: This role is a Remote , US but a strong preference for locations except CA, WA, DC, MD, NJ, NY, CT, MA, VA, AK. Meet the Team Join Cisco’s Splunk Integrated Core Platform team, where we build and maintain the critical authorization infrastructure powering Splunk’s enterprise observability and security platform. Our Authorization team develops highly scalable, high-performance systems that manage access and establish trust across services, applications, and complex enterprise environments. Working with both role-based and attribute-based access control (RBAC/ABAC), we solve challenging engineering problems involving distributed systems, service-to-service communication, and authorization enforcement at scale. You’ll join a collaborative engineering organization tackling complex architectural challenges, modernizing established systems, and building the foundational services that support some of the world’s largest enterprises. Your Impact As a Software Engineer on the Splunk Platform Authorization team, you’ll build and maintain backend services that power secure, reliable access across complex enterprise environments. You’ll work with experienced engineers to implement technical solutions, solve challenging problems, and improve the performance and reliability of our core platform. You’ll have the opportunity to take ownership of meaningful engineering work while expanding your expertise in distributed systems and cloud-native technologies. - Develop and maintain backend services using Go, supporting scalable authorization and service-to-service communication across Splunk’s platform. - Translate technical designs into high-quality, maintainable code, independently driving implementation while collaborating through design discussions and code reviews. - Investigate and resolve production issues, improve system performance and reliability, and address technical debt within complex backend systems. - Contribute to the modernization of established C++ services and the evolution of distributed infrastructure, including Kubernetes-based environments. - Collaborate with engineering teams, share technical knowledge, and participate in operational support and on-call rotations following onboarding. Minimum Qualifications - Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field with 5+ years of relevant experience or equivalent experience; or a Master’s degree with 3+ years of equivalent experience or related expereince; or a PhD in a related field or requivalent experience. - Professional software development experience building and maintaining backend services using Go. - Experience developing, troubleshooting, and maintaining backend applications or services in complex production environments. - Experience independently executing technical tasks, review and maintain code, and collaborate effectively within an engineering team. Preferred Qualifications - Experience developing or maintaining software in C++ or working with large, established codebases. - Familiarity with distributed systems, microservices, Kubernetes, or cloud-native infrastructure. - Understanding of authentication, authorization, identity and access management, or RBAC/ABAC concepts. - Experience working with high-performance, high-availability services in large-scale enterprise or cloud environments. - Experience diagnosing production issues, improving system reliability, or participating in on-call operations. 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 $128,600.00 to $184,900.00 and reflects the projected salary range for