Technical Leader Engineering

What You'll Do
We are developing our team and currently looking for experienced Software Engineers to work in an international environment in downtown Prague, Czech Republic as a part of the Advanced Threat Defense team spanning across Prague, CZ, Silicon Valley (San Jose), CA, Calgary, Canada, and London, UK. We expect you to:

• Build scalable machine learning systems for detection of modern malware, advanced cyber threats, and malicious user behavior
• Build high-performance cloud systems capable of handling challengingly Big Data maintained by CISCO, build and support infrastructures enabling large-scale data processing and Machine Learning computations
• Cooperate with the researchers on the user friendly and understandable presentation of the threats detected
• Fit into our DevOps mode of working and be responsible for the whole product cycle up to the production deployment

Who You'll Work With
We are a bunch of five former startups collectively called Advanced Threat Solutions and we keep an agile, fun, passionate upstart culture within Cisco. With security focus & mindset we make machine learning work on really big data. We balance collaboration and integration with autonomy and innovation to deliver the most effective solution to our customers’ problems. The unique mix of our disruptive approach to security and Cisco’s industry dominance surpasses what any other security startup could ever achieve on its own.

Who You are
So, if you share our passion for technology innovation, have experience in developing modern, responsive web applications and you love to interact with industry thought leaders on a daily basis, this is the job for you. We look forward to receiving your application and CV.

Our requirements for this role:

• Master's degree in Computer Science (PhD degree is a strong plus)
• Big data engineering experience (Apache Spark, Apache Kafka, Hadoop, Scala)
• Distributed systems and cloud computing experience (AWS, Docker, Akka)
• Experience designing and maintaining (REST) APIs
• Desire to stay hands on and do actual coding
• Data modeling and complex systems modeling experience.
• 5+ years of experience designing and developing scalable data processing applications
• Ability to quickly learn new technologies
• Willingness to work across teams and share knowledge and ideas
• Capability to stand up and formulate clear technical arguments supporting one’s opinion
• Teamwork spirit and excitement to work on complex cutting-edge systems for detection of modern malware and advanced cyber threats is essential
• Can-do attitude with a strong drive to take the initiative and complete tasks
• Experience of working in an Agile environment
• Willingness to take ownership for the deliverable
• Fluent English

An important plus will be:

• Experience running production environments in public cloud - DevOps
• R&D experience in several of the following areas: Machine Learning and Data Science, Computer Science, Statistics, Artificial Intelligence, Data Mining, Pattern Recognition, Cloud Computing, Game Theory, Graph Theory

Why Cisco
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We connect everything – people, process, data and things – and we use those connections to change our world for the better.
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We benefit everyone - We do all of this while striving for a culture that empowers every person to be the difference, at work and in our communities.
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