Staff Threat Hunting & Intelligence Engineer

Location: Seattle, Washington, US, Portland, Oregon, US, Arlington, Virginia, US, Washington, District of Columbia, US, Columbia, South Carolina, US, San Diego, California, US, Reston, Virginia, US

Remote Type: Remote

Time Type: Full time

Job Description

The application window is expected to close on: 10/26/2026

Job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received.

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 may also perform work that the U.S. government has specified can only be performed by a U.S. citizen on U.S. soil.

Meet the Team

This role reports to the Senior Manager, Threat Hunting and Intelligence in our Global Security Operations organization. As a member of THI, you will work with our multi-functional peer teams: Detection Engineering, SOC, Advanced Response, and others, to ensure that Splunk is always prepared for emergent threats. This is a true hybrid role. You will move fluidly between producing tactical threat intelligence, leading threat hunts, and building the automation that supports both.

Your Impact:

This role brings together threat intelligence, threat hunting, and engineering. You will track the sophisticated adversaries Splunk may face, deliver timely intelligence that supports incident response, hunt for adversary activity across very large datasets, and build the automation and tooling that turns intelligence and hunt findings into repeatable, scalable capabilities. You are self-motivated and passionate about tracking threat actors, love the rush of uncovering previously unknown activity, and have the development chops to automate and improve the mission. This role participates in an on-call rotation, and the nature of the work may include afterhours support during major incidents. We are a hard-working team who has fun, enjoys a good laugh, but above all else thinks security first.

• Deliver actionable threat intelligence during active incidents, including timely indicators, TTPs, behavioral patterns, and threat actor context

• Produce cadenced and ad-hoc intelligence products that inform hunts, detections, and business decisions

• Plan and conduct threat hunts, including retrospective, project-based, and an ad-hoc hunt library other teams can use daily

• Build and maintain scripts, API integrations, and automation that scale THI's intelligence and hunting use cases, improving threat-data ingestion, processing, and enrichment while reducing cycle time

• Apply AI to accelerate intelligence analysis, hunting, and tooling development

• Uncover adversary activity missed by current detection rules and hand findings to Detection Engineering to close the gap

• Craft compelling written products, presentations, and RFI responses that give decision advantage to technical and non-technical audiences

• Mentor analysts and engineers growing across threat intelligence, hunting, and engineering

Minimum Qualifications:

• 8+ years of professional cybersecurity experience, with demonstrable time across cyber threat intelligence and/or threat hunting

• Experience with sophisticated searching and reporting in Splunk, and the ability to build and interpret SPL fluidly

• Experience translating large datasets into meaningful information, with the relentless focus to continue a hunt when there are no easy wins

• Understanding of attacker behavior and the ability to translate intelligence and hunt findings into repeatable, automated capabilities

• Experience applying AI to accelerate development and analysis

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience leading threat actor and campaign attribution

• Strong programming proficiency in one or more languages to build scripts and API automation for threat-data ingestion and processing

• Experience delivering tactical threat intelligence in support of incident response

• Hands-on experience with DevOps, infrastructure-as-code, and CI/CD tooling

• Willingness to participate in an on-call rotation, including afterhours support during major incidents

• Expertise in uncovering adversary activity missed by industry detection rules

• Experience with network and host-based logs, and a solid understanding of common services (DNS, DHCP, email, proxy, VPN, firewall, etc.)

• Proficiency in cloud technologies (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and a robust understanding of Linux

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 $160,700.00 to $203,500.00 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:

$180,300.00 - $263,000.00

Non-Metro New York state & Washington state:

$160,700.00 - $234,100.00

* 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.