Senior Real-Time Data Engineer — AI & Streaming

Cisco Systems, Inc; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Cisco ThousandEyes is seeking a Software Engineer to design, build, and operate real-time data streaming solutions for leading Networking customers. You will develop agentic workflows, APIs, and integrations across CI/CD and development environments.

Join a team that builds secure, observable backend services and contributes to AI-enabled observability platforms, enabling proactive detection and remediation of issues at scale.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• Professional software development experience with Python, Java, or Go.
• Experience building, testing, and operating real-time data processing pipelines.
• Experience designing APIs within distributed architectures.
• Experience with Git, automated testing, Kubernetes, and CI/CD workflows.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, test, and operate real-time data streaming-based solutions for large customers.
• Develop agentic workflows, reusable skills, tool integrations, and orchestration capabilities.
• Integrate AI tools with source control, CI/CD, issue trackers, docs, and dev environments.
• Build backend services, MCP and APIs that are secure, observable, and reliable.
• Apply large-scale data processing to real-time streaming telemetry across domains.
• Contribute to architectural discussions and evolve the AI development platform.

Skills

Python

Java

Go

Data pipelines

APIs

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Git

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Spark/Flink

Job description

Cisco ThousandEyes is seeking a Software Engineer to design, build, and operate real-time data streaming solutions for leading Networking customers. You will develop agentic workflows, APIs, and integrations across CI/CD and development environments.

Join a team that builds secure, observable backend services and contributes to AI-enabled observability platforms, enabling proactive detection and remediation of issues at scale.