Senior Software Engineer - Real-Time Data & AI Platforms

624 Cisco International Limited; Greater London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Cisco ThousandEyes is seeking a Software Engineer to design, build, test, and operate near real time data streaming solutions. You will develop APIs within distributed architectures and integrate AI tools, while ensuring secure, observable backend services.

Join a team that handles large scale telemetry, collaborates on architectural evolution, and strives for reliable, maintainable systems in a modern cloud environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience in CS/SE.
• 3+ years of professional software development experience.
• Experience building real-time data processing pipelines.
• Experience designing and implementing APIs in distributed systems.
• Experience with Git, automated testing, Kubernetes, and CI/CD workflows.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, test, and operate near real time data streaming-based solutions.
• Develop agentic workflows, reusable skills, tool integrations, and orchestration capabilities.
• Integrate AI tools with source control, CI/CD systems, issue trackers, and documentation platforms.
• Build backend services, MCP and APIs that are secure, observable, and maintainable.
• Apply large scale data processing to real time streaming telemetry across domains.
• Contribute to technical design discussions and evolve the AI development platform; improve processes.

Skills

Python

Java

Go

API design

Distributed systems

Git

Automated testing

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Kafka Streams

ClickHouse

Flink

Kosmos

Codex

Claude

Job description

Cisco ThousandEyes is seeking a Software Engineer to design, build, test, and operate near real time data streaming solutions. You will develop APIs within distributed architectures and integrate AI tools, while ensuring secure, observable backend services.

Join a team that handles large scale telemetry, collaborates on architectural evolution, and strives for reliable, maintainable systems in a modern cloud environment.