Senior Software Engineer (Java)

Please note that we have a hybrid approach to work and would like to find someone who can come into our offices in London at least once per week.

Who We Are

Cisco ThousandEyes is a Digital Experience Assurance platform that empowers organizations to deliver flawless digital experiences across every network – even the ones they don’t own. Powered by AI and an unmatched set of cloud, internet and enterprise network telemetry data, ThousandEyes enables IT teams to proactively detect, diagnose, and remediate issues – before they impact end- user experiences.

ThousandEyes is deeply integrated across the entire Cisco technology portfolio and beyond, helping customers deploy at scale while also delivering AI-powered assurance insights within Cisco’s leading Networking, Security, Collaboration, and Observability portfolios.

What You’ll Do

You'll be working in the Endpoint team, our goal is to ensure our customers have an unparalleled ability to quickly troubleshoot network issues and do long-term analysis of end-user experience. We equip our customers with complete visibility into end-user connectivity, wherever they may be located, whether internal or cloud apps. You’ll help build and scale our backend infrastructure, which ingests, aggregates, and stores all the data our agents collect.

As our footprint grows, you will join a team of operationally-minded engineers and help us tackle data processing and availability at scale.

Minimum Qualifications

• An experienced Software Engineer with excellent knowledge of computer science fundamentals.
• Strong knowledge of JVM languages such as Java or Kotlin.
• Experience with developing and maintaining large-scale distributed production systems.
• Experience with on-call and production incident resolution.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or similar.
• Familiar with Docker, Kubernetes and cloud technologies such as AWS.  
• Experience with processing large data sets on Elasticsearch or similar data stores.
• Experience with event-driven architectures (CQRS, Kafka Streams etc).
• Understanding of networking fundamentals.
• Experience working on IoT products.

Cisco values the perspectives and skills that emerge from employees with diverse backgrounds. That's why Cisco is expanding the boundaries of discovering top talent by not only focusing on candidates with educational degrees and experience but also placing more emphasis on unlocking potential. We believe that everyone has something to offer and that diverse teams are better equipped to solve problems, innovate, and create a positive impact.

We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification. Not all strong candidates will meet every single qualification. Research shows that people from underrepresented groups are more prone to experiencing imposter syndrome and doubting the strength of their candidacy. We urge you not to prematurely exclude yourself and to apply if you're interested in this work.

Cisco is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, genetic information, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected basis. Cisco will consider for employment, on a case by case basis, qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.