Principal Engineer, Platform Engineering Group

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 de facto 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 We Do 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. 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 • 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. US – COMPENSATION RANGE – MESSAGE TO APPLICANTS 182400 USD - 323500 USD