at ThousandEyes

London, United Kingdom

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 organisations rely more on cloud services and the Internet, the network has become a “black box” outside of their control. ThousandEyes gives organisations visibility and insight into the now borderless network. It arms them with an accurate understanding of how the network impacts their applications, users and customers. ThousandEyes is used by some of the world’s largest and fastest growing brands, including all of the top 5 global software companies, 5 of the top 6 US banks, and 45 of the Fortune 500.

ThousandEyes pioneered Cloud and Internet Intelligence and is widely known as the ‘Google Maps of the Internet.’ Today, ThousandEyes is central to the global operations of the world’s largest and fastest-growing brands. The company was acquired by Cisco in August 2020, chartered with continuing to drive leadership in empowering organisations to see, understand, and improve digital experiences everywhere.

At ThousandEyes, our team isn't just a group of software engineers; we are innovators, creators, and builders at heart. As we embark on the exciting journey of upgrading the recently acquired SamKnows platform, we are in the process of integrating it into ThousandEyes at the same time. This is a unique opportunity to not just update, but to fundamentally transform and modernise our systems, influencing how our applications operate and interact with the world.

Last year, ThousandEyes acquired SamKnows, and, in an era where connectivity is paramount, the acquisition of SamKnows marks a significant step forward in our mission to enhance network visibility and performance, particularly in the critical last-mile segment and within consumer homes. This integration empowers Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and consumers with insightful data to identify connectivity and application issues, whether they originate in the home or beyond.

We are looking for a Software Engineer to help us with this transition by joining our web development team. This team is responsible for developing client facing web applications as an integrated product team, together with product managers and designers. Our developers are empowered to be involved in and feed into the decision-making process, using their diverse range of backgrounds and experiences to advocate for users and ensure we build the best possible solutions.

You will be joining our web development team and will be a key contributor in creating web applications, back-end services and APIs for our client-facing desktop and mobile sites. Duties for this team include trying to improve the customer experience in our product team, and assessing their data and test results to show them in the easiest way possible.

Your role will involve working proactively in a cross-functional agile team alongside a PM, Designers, and Front- and Back-end Developers, identifying, prioritising and documenting tasks in the development life cycle and delivering up-to-standard, clean, well-tested and efficient code. As a senior developer, you will provide help, guidance and support to other developers, and be instrumental in shaping the direction of our code.

The majority of our backend code is written in modern PHP; however, some of our newer, performance-critical projects are written in different languages such as Java or Go, and the technical direction is to start migrating all of our PHP APIs to a Java or Kotlin stack. Our frontend is written using Vue2 and Vue3, using Typescript and Vite. We target modern browsers and use websockets as well as any web standards that are able to best solve our problems. We are firm advocates of using the best tools for the job.

Our backend services and APIs interact with our vast measurement dataset in one way or another. Our software is installed on more than 30 million devices globally, and this figure is growing daily. To store and access our data we use a blend of database technologies to power our platform, including GCP BigQuery and Kafka, and we also use MySQL for our globally distributed metadata store. We use Docker for containerisation on both front-end and back-end repositories.

• Enjoyment in building products with solid architecture and seeing them through to deployment.
• Proven experience in designing and building systems that are scalable and well-tested.
• Professional development experience in PHP 7 or 8.
• Some experience with modern frontend frameworks such as Vue, Angular, React or Svelte.
• Some experience working with Java, Kotlin, or similar backend languages.
• Comfortable with problem-solving and prototyping solutions.
• Excitement about exploring cutting-edge technology.

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.

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