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Principal Software Engineer - ThousandEyes

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London, United KingdomStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, and maintain large-scale distributed production systems.
  • Partner with product and engineering leaders to evolve ThousandEyes technologies and ship new features.
  • Integrate ThousandEyes capabilities into Cisco wireless, security, and collaboration portfolios.
  • Leverage AI for self-service issue diagnosis and automated network remediation.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams across the company and contribute to operating complex systems.
  • Mentor software engineers at varying levels of experience.
  • Drive measurable improvements in developer productivity.

Requirements

  • Professional software engineering experience building and maintaining production-grade applications using Java, Kotlin, or C++.
  • At least 4 years of technical leadership experience designing, developing, and maintaining large-scale distributed production systems.
  • Experience delivering large-scale internet products while collaborating with cross-functional teams outside the direct reporting line.
  • Demonstrated experience mentoring software engineers at various experience levels.
  • Demonstrated experience making measurable improvements in developer productivity.
  • Preferred: bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a similar field.
  • Preferred: familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud technologies such as AWS.
  • Preferred: experience processing large data sets with Elasticsearch or similar data stores.
  • Preferred: experience with event-driven architectures such as CQRS and Kafka Streams.
  • Preferred: strong knowledge of computer science and networking fundamentals.

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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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