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Media Escalations Engineer

Cisco

Skills

Required

  • Software Engineering
  • media streaming
  • RTP / RTCP / SRTP / WebRTC / SIP / SDP / RTSP / HLS / DASH
  • SRE
  • SLI/SLO design
  • observability platforms
  • metrics / logs / traces
  • AWS / Microsoft Azure / Google Cloud
  • Prometheus / Grafana / Splunk / ThousandEyes / distributed tracing systems
  • Terraform / IaC
  • Jenkins
  • Kafka
  • PostgreSQL

Preferred

  • architectures
  • modern agentic AI
  • LLM tooling
  • Deep-dive troubleshooting for complex
  • WxMedia platform
  • audio / video
  • hybrid cloud and
  • bare-metal environments
  • AI-assisted observability

About Cisco

  • Meet the Team The Collaboration Technology Group is redefining the future of teamwork, building services that connect people effortlessly across devices, locations and time zones.
  • Our team in Stockholm builds, runs, and continuously improves the core media platform services behind Cisco’s collaboration products, operating at global scale across numerous datacentres.
  • We’re a passionate, collaborative team focused on real-time media reliability, innovation, and engineering excellence.
  • At Cisco, we’re revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era – and beyond.
  • We’ve been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds.
  • These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint.
  • Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions.
  • Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you’ll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless.
  • We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale.
  • Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere.
  • We are Cisco, and our power starts with you.

Responsibilities

  • As a Software Engineer in our Stockholm Webex Media (WxMedia) & SRE organization, you will bring new real-time media features to life and drive resolution for high-impact media platform escalations.

You will combine

  • Site Reliability Engineering practices with real-time media streaming architectures and modern agentic AI (reusable Skills, Model Context Protocol (MCP), and LLM tooling) to transform how we monitor, diagnose, and auto-remediate global media services handling billions of audio and video minutes.
  • Media Escalations & Real-Time Reliability: Deep-dive troubleshooting for complex WxMedia platform issues, investigating packet loss, jitter, latency, audio/video degradation, and SIP/WebRTC signalling failures across hybrid cloud and bare-metal environments.
  • Design and implement high-resilience software systems for AI-assisted observability, automated incident response, and self-healing cloud media infrastructure.
  • Design, build, and maintain production-grade AI agents, MCP tool integrations, and deterministic evaluation pipelines for automated operational decision support.
  • Implement ingestion and correlation pipelines across distributed logs, metrics, OpenTelemetry traces, change events, and runbooks to accelerate Mean Time to Detection (MTTD) and Resolution (MTTR).
  • Develop proactive anomaly detection and Human-in-the-Loop (HITL) remediation workflows with meticulous safety, security, and quality guardrails.
  • Partner with application and infrastructure teams to define SLIs/SLOs, handle error budgets, and lead investigation post-incident reviews (PIRs).
  • Mentor junior engineers, conduct thorough code reviews, establish engineering standards, and drive operational excellence across global development and operations teams.
  • Manage priorities and timelines, communicate progress clearly, and work across teams to turn production needs into reliable software and AI-assisted capabilities.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree + 8 years of related experience, Master’s + 6 years, or PhD + 3 years in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field.
  • Experience with media streaming or relevant protocols for real-time applications (e.g., RTP/RTCP, SRTP, WebRTC, SIP, SDP, RTSP, or HLS/DASH).
  • Experience in some of SRE practices (e.g. SLI/SLO design, observability platforms (metrics/logs/traces), incident management, and automated root cause analysis (RCA)) Preferred Qualifications Experience with public cloud platforms (AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud).
  • Experience with close-to-real-time systems and performance-sensitive code paths.
  • Comfort with incremental development, testing, and A/B testing in production.
  • Steers AI effectively via context and prompt design.
  • Experience building LLM pipelines, AI Agents, Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers/clients, RAG architectures, and evaluation frameworks.
  • Experience with OpenTelemetry (OTel), Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, ThousandEyes, or distributed tracing systems.
  • Expertise in Terraform/IaC and GitOps/CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Harness).
  • Experience implementing responsible AI guardrails, deterministic fallback logic, and policy-driven remediation engines.
  • Experience with streaming and data platforms (Kafka, Redis, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch/Vector DBs).
  • Why Cisco?