Principal Software Engineer - AI-Driven Networking

Remote Worker LTD.; Greater London; On-site; GBP 95,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Cisco ThousandEyes is a Digital Experience Assurance platform enabling IT teams to detect and remediate issues before end users are affected. You will lead software engineers, guide architecture decisions, and deliver features across distributed production systems.

You will work with cross-functional teams to integrate capabilities into Cisco’s wireless and security portfolios, leveraging AI to improve triage and automated remediation. Your impact spans from design to production operations.

Qualifications

• Production-grade software engineering experience in Java, Kotlin, or C++.
• 4+ years in technical leadership designing large-scale distributed systems.
• Experience shipping large-scale internet products with cross-functional teams.
• Mentored engineers and improved developer productivity.

Responsibilities

• Partner with product and engineering leaders to evolve technologies.
• Ship new features and integrate with Cisco wireless and security portfolios.
• Leverage AI for self-service issue diagnosis and automated remediation.
• Advocate for engineering effectiveness and contribute to complex system operations.

Skills

Software architecture

Team leadership

Distributed systems

Java

Kotlin

C++

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS or related field

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

Elasticsearch

Job description

Cisco ThousandEyes is a Digital Experience Assurance platform enabling IT teams to detect and remediate issues before end users are affected. You will lead software engineers, guide architecture decisions, and deliver features across distributed production systems.

You will work with cross-functional teams to integrate capabilities into Cisco’s wireless and security portfolios, leveraging AI to improve triage and automated remediation. Your impact spans from design to production operations.