Senior Software Engineer - ThousandEyes

Cisco Systems, Inc; Greater London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 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.
• Improve engineering processes, documentation, and operational practices across the team.

Skills

Python

Java

Go

Data pipelines

APIs

Git

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Automated testing

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Git

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Spark/Flink

Job description

Meet the Team

Cisco ThousandEyes is a Digital Assurance platform that empowers organizations to deliver flawless digital experiences across every network – even the ones they don’t own. Powered by AI and an unmatched set of cloud, internet and enterprise network telemetry data, ThousandEyes enables IT teams to proactively detect, diagnose, and remediate issues – before they impact end- user experiences.

ThousandEyes is deeply integrated across the entire Cisco technology portfolio and beyond, helping customers deploy at scale while also delivering AI-powered assurance insights within Cisco’s leading Networking, Security, Collaboration, and Observability portfolios.

Your Impact

As a Software Engineer you will:

• Design, build, test, and operate near real time data streaming-based (Spark/Flink) solutions for some of the largest Networking customers in the world.
• Develop agentic workflows, reusable skills, tool integrations, and orchestration capabilities.
• Integrate AI tools with source control, CI/CD systems, issue trackers, documentation platforms, and internal developer environments.
• Build backend services, MCP and APIs that are secure, observable, reliable, and easy to maintain.
• Apply large scale data processing to real time streaming telemetry across various domains.
• Contribute to technical design discussions and help evolve the architecture of our AI development platform.
• Improve engineering processes, documentation, and operational practices across the team.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Professional software development experience using Python, Java, or Go.
• Experience designing, building, testing, and operating real-time data processing pipelines.
• Experience designing and implementing APIs within distributed software architectures.
• Experience with Git, automated testing, Kubernetes, and continuous integration and delivery workflow.

Preferred Qualifications

• Deep knowledge and interest in real-time data processing with technologies such as Kafka Streams, ClickHouse, Flink, and similar.
• Familiarity with relational, document-based, or vector datastores.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools such as Kosmos, Codex, or Claude.
• Understanding of containers and modern cloud deployment practices.
• Strong problem-solving and communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively in a cross-functional team.

Why Cisco?

At Cisco, we’re revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era – and beyond. We’ve been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint.

Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you’ll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere.

We are Cisco, and our power starts with you.