Top Tech Jobs & Startup Jobs in San Francisco Bay Area, CA

Owns the strategy, roadmap, execution, launch, adoption, and evolution of an AI Security product domain within Cisco AI Defense. Leads customer discovery, competitive analysis, technical evaluations, product prioritization, cross-functional alignment, and platform capability development. Translates advances in AI architectures, agents, models, and security techniques into enterprise product solutions while driving measurable customer, security, adoption, and business outcomes.

Own technical relationships with Neocloud and AI infrastructure customers. Lead discovery, architecture, validation, proofs of concept, demonstrations, executive briefings, objection resolution, and technical closes. Partner with Account Executives to develop account strategies, secure design wins, and coordinate engineering, product, and business-unit stakeholders. Design large-scale AI, data center, and service provider networks using advanced routing, network operating systems, compute, storage, and optical technologies.

Lead product strategy for early-stage incubation of emerging technologies (quantum networking, cryptography, AI). Conduct market and VC analysis, define product-market fit, collaborate with research and engineering, influence senior leadership, and drive incubation from concept to enterprise-ready initiatives.

Leads the architecture and technical execution of Cisco’s distributed AI platform. Designs high-concurrency Go and Python microservices, agentic AI orchestration, identity and multi-tenant systems, API gateways, and secure service communication. Authors technical specifications, drives zero-trust security, CVE remediation, production triage, and platform reliability. Mentors senior engineers and establishes engineering standards across teams.

Leads architecture and cross-service execution for Cisco’s distributed AI platform. Responsibilities include designing multi-service systems, authoring technical specifications, implementing identity and zero-trust security, managing CVE remediation and production triage, and mentoring senior engineers. The role requires extensive experience with Go, Python, distributed systems, authentication, agentic AI, Kubernetes, observability, and cloud infrastructure.

Drive Cisco Security revenue across SLED accounts in the Bay Area by developing account plans, building pipeline, expanding customer relationships, forecasting sales activity, leading complex security initiatives, and achieving software, subscription, support, and services targets. The role requires security solution sales expertise, technical presentations, strategic account planning, partner collaboration, and consistent quota attainment.

Lead the architecture, operation, and reliability of Cisco ThousandEyes’ FedRAMP-compliant US GovCloud platform. Design resilient AWS services using infrastructure as code, maintain high availability and security for large-scale data streams, automate compliance controls and auditing, and collaborate with engineering and security teams on multi-region infrastructure, risk management, incident response, and technical strategy.

Leads the migration of globally distributed Kubernetes workloads from AWS to an internal platform, establishes technical direction, and supports production reliability. Responsibilities include incident response, performance optimization, observability, automation, networking, security, operational readiness, and production-quality Go development for distributed systems. The role partners across infrastructure, security, SRE, product, and application teams while contributing to Kubernetes platform reliability and scalability initiatives.

Designs and develops enterprise and small-business networking switches from architecture through production. Responsibilities include creating technical documentation, system block diagrams, schematics and layout reviews, hardware bring-up, troubleshooting, validation, yield improvement, supplier collaboration, and sustaining customer issue resolution. The role partners with ASIC suppliers, ODM/JDM manufacturers, software, product management, and cross-functional teams throughout new product introduction and commercialization.

Designs, deploys, and operates enterprise observability platforms for logs, metrics, traces, and alerting. Maintains Splunk, Elasticsearch, Prometheus, Grafana, Kafka, Tempo, and OpenTelemetry systems; automates infrastructure with Terraform; develops dashboards and alerts; supports capacity planning, upgrades, disaster recovery, incident response, and on-call operations. Partners with engineering teams to improve reliability, monitoring standards, and production performance across cloud infrastructure.