Senior Backend Engineer - Data Lake & Spark

Cisco Systems, Inc; Kraków; On-site; PLN 240,000 - 340,000; Full time

Job summary

Cisco Systems, Inc – Lakehouse team in Kraków is hiring a backend engineer to own feature delivery from design to release, extending federated query and data lake capabilities. You will build secure distributed systems with automated tests and documentation, and resolve complex issues in development and production.

Collaborate with engineering and product partners to refine requirements, prototype ideas, and communicate progress.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related STEM field, or a related discipline with 5+ years of related professional experience; master’s degree in one of these fields with 3+ years of related professional experience; or a PhD in one of these fields with no prior professional experience required.
• Experience developing backend software in Java or Scala.
• Experience designing and implementing distributed systems using object-oriented or functional programming practices.
• Experience developing or deploying applications on AWS or Azure and using infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or ARM templates.
• Experience writing automated tests and working with version control and CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Own the delivery of features, from technical design through implementation and release, to extend Splunk’s federated query and data lake capabilities.
• Build secure, maintainable distributed systems with automated tests and technical documentation to support reliable, high-performance data processing.
• Investigate and resolve complex issues during development and in production, using root cause analysis to improve reliability and the customer experience.
• Collaborate with engineering and product partners to refine requirements, evaluate ideas through prototypes, and communicate delivery progress and technical tradeoffs.
• Strengthen engineering practices through code reviews, knowledge sharing, and mentoring colleagues while contributing ideas to the product roadmap.

Skills

Java

Scala

Distributed systems

Automated tests

Version control

CI/CD pipelines

Backend design

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science / STEM

Master’s degree in related field

PhD in related field with no experience

Tools

AWS

Azure

Terraform

CloudFormation

ARM templates

CI/CD tools

Git

Apache Spark

Databricks

Kubernetes

Job description

Cisco Systems, Inc – Lakehouse team in Kraków is hiring a backend engineer to own feature delivery from design to release, extending federated query and data lake capabilities. You will build secure distributed systems with automated tests and documentation, and resolve complex issues in development and production.

Collaborate with engineering and product partners to refine requirements, prototype ideas, and communicate progress.