Senior C++ Backend Engineer — Scalable Distributed Search

541 Cisco Systems Poland sp. Z o.o.; Kraków; On-site; PLN 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Cisco's Splunk Search Experience backend team is seeking Senior Software Engineers to help build a scalable search platform powering AI-driven workflows across our products. You will develop high-performance backend services, work on distributed systems, and mentor junior engineers, collaborating with product and cross-functional teams.

You will design, optimize, and operate search pipelines, ensure reliability and scalability, and contribute to architecture decisions while delivering end-to-end

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in software engineering with a relevant degree or equivalent.
• Deep expertise in C++, including experience building high-performance backend systems.
• Strong foundation in distributed systems concepts, system design, debugging and testing.
• Proven ability to design scalable and reliable system architectures.
• Excellent problem-solving, debugging, and triaging skills.
• Experience owning and delivering complex software projects end-to-end in production environments.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Demonstrated experience mentoring other engineers and driving technical direction.
• Experience with public cloud services such as AWS, GCP, Azure.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and launch features powering Splunk’s core search functionalities.
• Build robust, fault-tolerant and scalable distributed systems in a multi-threaded/multi-process environment.
• Define and perform search language layer optimizations and transformations.
• Analyze and improve reliability and scalability of search execution pipelines.
• Diagnose and resolve customer incidents, identify gaps, and deliver improvements.
• Mentor junior engineers and grow talent on the team.

Skills

C++ backend development

Distributed systems

System design

Debugging & testing

Performance tuning

Mentoring engineers

Cloud services (AWS/GCP/Azure)

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Kubernetes

Monitoring tools

Observability tooling

Job description

Cisco's Splunk Search Experience backend team is seeking Senior Software Engineers to help build a scalable search platform powering AI-driven workflows across our products. You will develop high-performance backend services, work on distributed systems, and mentor junior engineers, collaborating with product and cross-functional teams.

You will design, optimize, and operate search pipelines, ensure reliability and scalability, and contribute to architecture decisions while delivering end-to-end