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Software Engineer

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1 day ago
London, United KingdomMid Level / Senior

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement resilient software systems for AI-assisted observability, automated incident response, and self-healing cloud infrastructure.
  • Build and maintain production-grade AI agents, Model Context Protocol integrations, and deterministic evaluation pipelines.
  • Develop ingestion and correlation pipelines for logs, metrics, traces, change events, and runbooks.
  • Create anomaly detection and human-in-the-loop remediation workflows with safety, security, and quality guardrails.
  • Define SLIs and SLOs, manage error budgets, and lead post-incident reviews.
  • Mentor engineers, conduct code reviews, establish engineering guidelines, and drive operational excellence across teams.
  • Coordinate priorities and delivery across application, infrastructure, development, and operations teams.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree and 8 years of related experience, master’s degree and 6 years, or PhD and 3 years in computer science, software engineering, or a related technical field.
  • Experience as a Senior or Lead SRE or Software Engineer delivering distributed, highly available SaaS platforms at scale.
  • Strong proficiency in Python, Go, Java, or C++ and experience designing production automation and distributed services.
  • Deep experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and container orchestration in large-scale multi-cluster environments.
  • Experience with SRE practices, SLI/SLO design, observability platforms, incident management, and automated root-cause analysis.
  • Preferred experience building LLM pipelines, AI agents, Model Context Protocol servers or clients, RAG architectures, and evaluation frameworks.
  • Preferred experience with OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, ThousandEyes, or distributed tracing systems.
  • Preferred expertise with AWS, GCP, Azure, Terraform, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or Harness.
  • Preferred experience with responsible AI guardrails, deterministic fallback logic, policy-driven remediation, Kafka, Redis, PostgreSQL, and Elasticsearch or vector databases.

Tech Stack

Apache KafkaAWSAzureC++DockerElasticsearchGitHub ActionsGoGoogle Cloud PlatformGrafanaHarnessJavaJenkinsKubernetesPostgreSQLPrometheusPythonRedisSplunkTerraform

Categories

AI ApplicationsSite Reliability
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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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