Senior Software Engineer, Events Platform - ThousandEyes

Senior Software Engineer, Events Platform - ThousandEyes

AI or Artificial Intelligence, Networking

The following information provides an overview of the skills, qualities, and qualifications needed for this role.

Job Id : 1430100

• Location : San Francisco, California, US
• Area of Interest : Engineer - Software
• Compensation Range : 157400 USD - 222200 USD
• Job Type : Professional
• Technology Interest : AI or Artificial Intelligence, Networking

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.

About the Role

The Events team focuses on building a highly scalable stream processing platform to detect anomalies and provide actionable insights to our customers.

We work on problems such as identifying timely automated events, LLM / GenAI-based summarization and remediation, and building and deploying multiple stream processing platforms.

We use technologies such as Spark, Flink, Kafka, DynamoDB, Debezium, Elasticache, etc. to implement multiple sophisticated rules and statistical models to detect anomalies across billions of events.

As part of this team, you will contribute to the real-time data platform, AIOps strategy, and build microservices that power critical business workflows, make sure systems are operational, and enforce strict SLAs.

What You’ll Do

As a Lead Software Engineer, you'll be at the forefront of innovation! Your role involves building a real-time data processing platform that handles billions of data points in real-time, pushing the boundaries of what's possible.

Dive into the exciting realm of AI & generative AI as you develop cutting-edge anomaly detection algorithms and LLM-based summarization, and roll out more event types.

Your expertise will enable the team to move faster with a more ambitious roadmap and continue our leading position in the industry.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software development experience
• Expert-level understanding of object-oriented JVM-based programming languages such as Java, Kotlin, Scala, etc.
• Strong Computer Science fundamentals and object-oriented design skills
• Experience in designing and building large-scale real-time streaming pipelines using Flink, Kafka streaming, or Spark
• Strategic leadership in guiding software development teams
• Background working in a fast-paced development environment
• Strong team collaboration and communication skills
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or similar

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud technologies (AWS, GCP)
• Understanding of network protocols

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.

US COMPENSATION RANGE MESSAGE TO APPLICANTS

164,200 USD - 241,700 USD

Message to applicants applying to work in the U.S. :

When available, the salary range posted for this position reflects the projected hiring range for new hire, full-time salaries in U.

S. locations, not including equity or benefits. For non-sales roles the hiring ranges reflect base salary only; employees are also eligible to receive annual bonuses.

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.

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