Director of Engineering, WAN Insights

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.

As a Director of the Recommendations Engine group, you will be responsible for building the next generation routing engine for the Internet using Data Science, Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI). The size, diversity, and richness of our data are, simply unmatched. The Internet is changing fast, and we are too. The objective of this confidential product is to adopt a highly novel and ambitious approach for optimizing networks to better serve applications. 

You and your team will be designing and implementing large-scale machine learning pipelines. Our technology stack includes Java, Python, Go as well as a wide range of internal tools built on top of Apache Spark, TensorFlow and other Big Data technologies.

• Proven software engineering management experience leading multiple teams of 4-8 engineers
• Can provide a strong technical vision for your team and ensure consistent delivery of objectives
• Have experience formulating a team's technical strategy and roadmap; you've collaborated and partnered effectively with several other teams to execute on shared goals
• Extensive hands-on experience building enterprise software products, especially those that use distributed system architectures 
• Have experience building products, and have successfully taken significant enhancements and features from inception to production
• Are a strong proponent of Agile software methodologies, such as Scrum, and engineering principles such as Test-Driven Development
• Understand how to balance tactical needs with strategic growth and quality-based initiatives that can span multiple quarters

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. 

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