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Principal Software Engineer, Platform Group
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Area of Interest
Compensation Range : 227100 USD - 323500 USD
Job Type : Professional
Job Id : 1432883
Who We Are
Cisco ThousandEyes is a Digital Experience 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.
About The Role
The Platform Engineering group maintains core functionality such as authentication, authorization, subscription management, alerting, auditing, third party integrations, data visualizations, and dashboards within the ThousandEyes SaaS product. The goal of the group is to provide these capabilities to Product teams so they can quickly and efficiently deliver value to our customers leveraging ThousandEyes for their network assurance needs every day.
This team and role interacts regularly with all AI / ML teams at ThousandEyes.
What You’ll Do
You will report to the Senior Director overseeing the group and will be responsible for ensuring the technical direction of ThousandEyes’ Platform Engineering teams are consistently meeting the challenges they currently face and those they will encounter years into the future. You will be a force multiplier within the group and raise the bar on quality, operational excellence and security. This role will allow you to set a broad vision for how ThousandEyes approaches complex problems in the coming years.
Qualifications
- 15 years of software development experience
- Fast learner
- Comfortable working with newer technologies
- Able to mentor and grow engineers to meet their potential
- Ability to solve complex problems with simple and maintainable solutions
- Expert knowledge in performance, scalability, distributed systems, and engineering best practices
- Strong proponent of software quality techniques, such as test driven development and automated acceptance testing
- Expert understanding of Java
- Excellent object-oriented design skills
- Experience with streaming architectures, in particular Kafka
- Experience in open-source development is a plus
- Strong Computer Science fundamentals
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or similar
Cisco values the perspectives and skills that emerge from employees with diverse backgrounds. That's why Cisco is expanding the boundaries of discovering top talent by not only focusing on candidates with educational degrees and experience but also placing more emphasis on unlocking potential. We believe that everyone has something to offer and that diverse teams are better equipped to solve problems, innovate, and create a positive impact.
We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification. Not all strong candidates will meet every single qualification. Research shows that people from underrepresented groups are more prone to experiencing imposter syndrome and doubting the strength of their candidacy. We urge you not to prematurely exclude yourself and to apply if you're interested in this work.
Cisco is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, genetic information, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected basis.
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