Meet the Team
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.
Connected Devices helps assure the quality of home broadband connections for millions of people around the world. You might already be one of them! The Platform Team builds and operates all the web and server-side components for Connected Devices, helping customers access, control, and get value from their data. We’re a small but well-rounded team and our work has lots of angles: scaling our architecture for the next level of growth, building new features to help our customers get even more value and joining up with the rest of ThousandEyes to push the whole platform to the next level. Cisco is moving fast on AI, both in the product and in our tooling and there’s lots of opportunity to push this forward in Connected Devices too.
Your Impact
As a backend Technical Leader in Connected Devices Platform you will:
Create code across our backend estate touching high volume streaming, responsive backend-for-frontend APIs, scalable domain services, transactional and analytical databases and more.
Ensure the resilience and robustness of our platform to keep our customers having a great experience.
Design technical solutions for new product offerings and evolutions of our existing architecture.
Evolve our development and operational processes so we can keep getting faster, more reliable and with even higher quality.
Help your teammates evolve their skills and practice through practical mentoring and knowledge sharing.
Minimum Qualifications:
Expert-level understanding of Java or Kotlin.
Wide experience working distributed systems especially using Apache Kafka.
Strong architecture and design skills including data and API modelling.
On-the-job experience with agentic AI development including skills and harness development.
Preferred Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or similar.
Knowledge of Kotlin and Golang.
Strong understanding of Kubernetes and modern cloud deployment.
Exposure to a variety of datastore technologies covering transactional and analytical, relational and document-based.
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
- Expert-level understanding of Java or Kotlin.
- Wide experience working with distributed systems, especially using Apache Kafka.
- Strong architecture and design skills including data and API modelling.
- On-the-job experience with agentic AI development, including skills and harness development.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or similar.
- Knowledge of Kotlin and Golang.
- Strong understanding of Kubernetes and modern cloud deployment.
- Exposure to a variety of datastore technologies (transactional, analytical, relational, document-based).
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 robust with multiple plan options and access to onsite/virtual LifeConnections Health Centers on major campuses. Company materials also highlight mental-health resources and comprehensive preventive care, supporting strong core medical benefits.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time away includes company‑wide recharge days, a paid birthday, a year‑end shutdown, and paid Critical Time Off for emergencies. Paid volunteer days further expand opportunities to step away and recharge.
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Parental & Family Support — Policies include a global minimum for paid parental leave for primary caregivers, caregiving concierge services, and on‑site children’s learning centers in select locations. In the U.S., family‑building support is consolidated under Carrot with a defined lifetime maximum, indicating structured assistance across fertility, preservation, adoption, and surrogacy.
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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.
