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Senior Software Engineer (Java/Scala), Lakehouse Team - Splunk

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Kraków, PolandSenior

Responsibilities

  • Lead features from technical design through implementation, release, and ongoing operation for federated query and data lake capabilities.
  • Design and build secure, high-performance distributed systems for large-scale data processing.
  • Develop backend software in Java or Scala and contribute to automated testing, code reviews, and production support.
  • Analyze and optimize query performance using query planning, execution strategies, indexing, algorithms, and data structures.
  • Troubleshoot complex production issues, lead root cause analyses and incident investigations, and improve reliability.
  • Coordinate technical delivery with engineering and product partners, including requirements refinement, prototyping, tradeoff evaluation, milestone management, and roadmap contributions.
  • Mentor engineers and improve development practices through technical guidance, documentation, and knowledge sharing.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree with 7+ years of related professional experience, master’s degree with 4+ years, or PhD with 1+ year of related professional experience.
  • Production backend software development experience in Java or Scala using object-oriented or functional programming practices.
  • Experience designing distributed systems for large-scale data processing, including data transformation, query processing, or query optimization.
  • Experience delivering software across technical design, implementation, testing, release, and production support.
  • Experience writing automated tests, reviewing code, and using version control and continuous integration pipelines.
  • Preferred experience with Apache Spark, Databricks, or similar large-scale data processing technologies.
  • Preferred experience with query engine internals, performance-focused algorithms and data structures, technical delivery coordination, production incident investigations, postmortems, reliability improvements, and engineer mentoring.

Tech Stack

Apache SparkDatabricksJavaScalaSplunk

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About Cisco

10,000+ employees

Cisco designs and sells networking, security, and collaboration platforms for enterprises, service providers, and governments, spanning routers and switches, Wi‑Fi, firewalls, zero‑trust, observability, and cloud-managed IT (Meraki) plus Webex. Its business model mixes hardware, software subscriptions, and support/consulting services. Founded in 1984 and headquartered in San Jose, California, Cisco is a public company traded on Nasdaq and serves customers across data centers, campuses, and service provider networks.

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