Senior Software Engineer(Backend), Alerts (Remote)

The name ThousandEyes was born from two big ideas: the power to see things not ordinarily possible and the ability to collect insights from a multitude of vantage points. As organizations rely more on cloud services and the Internet, the network has become a black box they can't understand. Our Internet and cloud intelligence platform delivers the only collectively powered view of the Internet, cloud and SaaS platforms, helping enterprises and service providers work together to identify problems before it impacts revenue, damages brand reputation, or halts 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.

Alerts team focuses on building a highly scalable stream processing platform to detect anomalies and provide actionable insights to our customers. We work on problems such as providing granular and intuitive controls to configure alerting rules, building and deploying multiple stream processing platforms using technologies such as Flink, Kafka, Debezium, Elasticache etc., execute multiple complex rules and  statistical models to detect anomalies across billions of events etc. As part of this team you will contribute to the real time data platform, build microservices that power critical business workflows, make sure systems are operational and adhere to strict SLAs. 

Alerts platform is critical for our customers to act on potential problems in their mission critical systems. If you are very passionate about working on huge amounts of data and love seeing them turn into powerful insights to help improve the quality of the internet, this is your team!

• 6+ years of software development experience
• Expert level understanding of object oriented programming languages such as Java, Kotlin, Scala, etc.
• Strong Computer Science fundamentals and object-oriented design skills 
• Experience building large scale data processing systems
• Experience working in a fast-paced development environment 
• Strong team collaboration and communication skills
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or similar

• Experience building large scale real-time streaming pipelines using Kafka, Flink, or Spark
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes and cloud technologies (AWS, GCP)
• Experience with network protocols

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