Senior Software Engineer (Java), API Platform

Please note that we have a hybrid approach to work and would like to find someone who can come into our offices in Lisbon or Crete at least one day per week.

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

You'll be working in the API team, our goal is to deliver a global and reliable public API where our customers can take full advantage of our state-of-the-art real-time network monitoring technology that measures, correlates, and visualizes synthetic data about global network conditions.

What You’ll Do

As a Senior Software Engineer on this team, you will be responsible for designing and implementing a reliable public API with a focus on security, performance and scale to help meet the requirements of our Enterprise customers and help engineering teams deliver the best in class public API for networking monitoring data.

Qualifications

• An experienced Software Engineer, proficient in JVM languages such as Kotlin or Java, and excellent knowledge of computer science fundamentals.
• Expert level understanding of public APIs.
• Experience building large-scale cloud systems.
• Excellent object-oriented design skills.
• Professional experience with Docker, Kubernetes and cloud technologies such as AWS.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with API security, authentication, and authorization protocols.
• Experience with on-call and production incident resolution.
• Experience in open-source development.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or similar.
• Experience with network protocols.

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.