Principal Software Engineer - Backend, Cloud Native

The name ThousandEyes was born from two big ideas: the power to see what’s not ordinarily possible, and the ability to collect intelligence from vantage points as diverse and global as the Internet. As organizations depend on cloud services, the Internet has become their defacto network connecting cloud applications to users. Our Internet and cloud intelligence platform is like a ‘Google maps of the Internet’, providing the only collectively powered view of digital experiences end-to-end. We enable our customers made up of the world’s largest and fastest-growing brands, to identify problems before they impact revenue, brand reputation, or employee productivity.

In August 2020, Cisco Systems completed the acquisition of ThousandEyes, which now forms the ThousandEyes Business Unit within Cisco’s Network Services Business Group, and is a foundational component of Cisco’s growing Observability business.

What You’ll Do

The goal of the  team is to provide a real-time network monitoring platform that measures, correlates, and visualizes synthetic data about global network conditions. This data allows our customers to gather performance metrics about network services and servers that they depend on and make informed decisions about how to take action should something go wrong. As a Principal Software Engineer on this team, you will be helping to address our two main challenges: keeping up with the ever-increasing amount of data gathered by our agents, and making this information more actionable for our customers.

Qualifications: 

• 10+ years of software development experience

• A fast learner

• Comfortable working with newer technologies

• Expert understanding of Java

• Excellent object-oriented design skills

• Experience with streaming architectures, in particular Kafka

• Experience in open-source development is a plus

• Experience with network protocols is a plus

• Strong Computer Science fundamentals

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science or similar

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. Cisco will consider for employment, on a case by case basis, qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.