Meet the Team
Cisco ThousandEyes is a Digital 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.
Your Impact
As a Software Engineer you will:
- Design, build, test, and operate near real time data streaming-based (Spark/Flink) solutions for some of the largest Networking customers in the world.
- Develop agentic workflows, reusable skills, tool integrations, and orchestration capabilities.
- Integrate AI tools with source control, CI/CD systems, issue trackers, documentation platforms, and internal developer environments.
- Build backend services, MCP and APIs that are secure, observable, reliable, and easy to maintain.
- Apply large scale data processing to real time streaming telemetry across various domains.
- Contribute to technical design discussions and help evolve the architecture of our AI development platform.
- Improve engineering processes, documentation, and operational practices across the team.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Professional software development experience using Python, Java, or Go.
- Experience designing, building, testing, and operating real-time data processing pipelines.
- Experience designing and implementing APIs within distributed software architectures.
- Experience with Git, automated testing, Kubernetes, and continuous integration and delivery workflow.
Preferred Qualifications
- Deep knowledge and interest in real-time data processing with technologies such as Kafka Streams, ClickHouse, Flink, and similar.
- Familiarity with relational, document-based, or vector datastores.
- Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools such as Kosmos, Codex, or Claude.
- Understanding of containers and modern cloud deployment practices.
- Strong problem-solving and communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively in a cross-functional team.
At Cisco, we’re revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era – and beyond. We’ve been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint.
Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you’ll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere.
We are Cisco, and our power starts with you.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, a related field, or equivalent practical experience
- Professional software development experience using Python, Java, or Go
- Experience designing, building, testing, and operating real-time data processing pipelines
- Experience designing and implementing APIs within distributed software architectures
- Experience with Git, automated testing, Kubernetes, and continuous integration and delivery workflows
- Knowledge or interest in real-time data processing technologies such as Kafka Streams, ClickHouse, and Flink
- Familiarity with relational, document-based, or vector datastores
- Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools such as Kosmos, Codex, or Claude
- Understanding of containers and modern cloud deployment practices
- Strong problem-solving and communication skills with effective cross-functional collaboration
Cisco Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Cisco and has not been reviewed or approved by Cisco.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is described as broad, with medical options including PPOs, high-deductible plans, and regional HMOs. Feedback suggests robust wellness and mental-health resources, with some locations offering on-site support and second medical opinions.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time off is highlighted through paid holidays, paid time off, and additional recharge days such as “Days for Me,” with generous volunteer time also mentioned. Feedback suggests these programs help support rest, volunteering, and critical life events.
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Parental & Family Support — Parental and family support appears extensive, including paid child-bonding leave, family medical leave, and caregiving resources. Observations also point to family-planning assistance and adoption or surrogacy support in some regions.
Cisco Insights
What We Do
Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) enables people to make powerful connections--whether in business, education, philanthropy, or creativity. Cisco hardware, software, and service offerings are used to create the Internet solutions that make networks possible--providing easy access to information anywhere, at any time. Cisco was founded in 1984 by a small group of computer scientists from Stanford University. Since the company's inception, Cisco engineers have been leaders in the development of Internet Protocol (IP)-based networking technologies. Today, with more than 71,000 employees worldwide, this tradition of innovation continues with industry-leading products and solutions in the company's core development areas of routing and switching, as well as in advanced technologies such as home networking, IP telephony, optical networking, security, storage area networking, and wireless technology. In addition to its products, Cisco provides a broad range of service offerings, including technical support and advanced services. Cisco sells its products and services, both directly through its own sales force as well as through its channel partners, to large enterprises, commercial businesses, service providers, and consumers.
