Software Engineer
CISCO Systems · London, England ·
Last confirmed by our partners on 15 Oct 2026.
Overview
In this role you will design and build the core capabilities of a next-generation AI-powered Production Intelligence platform. You’ll blend Site Reliability Engineering practices with agentic AI to improve how teams monitor, diagnose, and auto-remediate global SaaS infrastructure.
You’ll work across distributed systems at scale, shaping reliable, scalable software and AI-assisted capabilities. This position offers impact at the intersection of observability, automation, and AI within Cisco’s Collaboration Technology Group.
You will partner with cross-functional teams to drive reliability and engineering excellence.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement high-resilience software for AI-assisted observability, automated incident response, and self-healing cloud infrastructure
- Develop AI agents, MCP integrations, and evaluation pipelines for automated operational decision support
- Build ingestion and correlation pipelines for logs, metrics, traces, change events, and runbooks to improve MTTD/MTTR
- Create proactive anomaly detection and HITL remediation workflows with safety and security guardrails
- Define SLIs/SLOs, manage error budgets, and lead post-incident reviews
- Mentor mid-level and junior engineers, conduct code reviews, and promote engineering best practices
- Coordinate with multiple teams to translate production needs into reliable software and AI capabilities
Key requirements
- Experience as a Senior/Lead SRE or Software Engineer delivering distributed, high-availability SaaS at scale
- Strong programming in Python, Go, Java, or C++, with microservices and API design experience
- Deep experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and large-scale multi-cluster orchestration
- Proven SRE background: SLI/SLO design, observability platforms, incident management, and RCA automation
- mentorship and coaching
- cross-team collaboration
- clear communication
- AI & Agentic Systems: LLM pipelines, AI Agents, MCP servers/clients, RAG architectures
- Observability & Telemetry: OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, distributed tracing
- Cloud & Infrastructure: AWS, GCP, Azure, Terraform/IaC, GitOps/CI/CD (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Harness)
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