Senior Software Engineer (Remote)

Cisco•San Jose, CA

6d•Remote

About The Position

Isovalent, now part of Cisco, is building the next generation of products for securing workloads and AI infrastructure using advanced technologies across Linux and Windows. The software agent team builds high-performance, secure, and lightweight software agents that run across Linux, Unix, and Windows environments and multiple architectures, including aarch64, x86_64, s390x, and ppc64_le. These agents operate across traditional and modern workloads in on-premises and cloud environments. You will work closely with software engineers and cross-functional teams that include data engineers, data scientists, and UX/UI engineers. The software you develop helps provide visibility, security, and management across data center, enterprise, container, and cloud environments at significant scale.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree with 5+ years of software development experience, or a Master's degree with 4+ years of software development experience
Experience with systems programming using C or C++, including multi-threaded and multi-process application development.
Experience operating system fundamentals, including threads, processes, file systems, networking, and inter-process communication.
Experience debugging and troubleshooting complex software systems.

Nice To Haves

Experience with Windows systems programming.
Experience with networking technologies and concepts.
Experience with host-based firewalls.
Experience with crash dump analysis.
Experience programming in Golang.
Experience developing software that interacts with operating system kernels or other low-level system components.
Experience developing software for containerized, cloud, or distributed computing environments.

Responsibilities

Design, develop, test, and improve high-performance software agents.
Develop software that operates across Linux, Unix, and Windows environments and multiple processor architectures.
Develop and enhance functionality for enforcing network policies on workloads from a central controller.
Build capabilities that monitor and protect container-based deployments.
Analyze complex software systems involving interactions between multiple processes and operating system kernels.
Collaborate with software engineers, data engineers, data scientists, UX/UI engineers, technical support engineers, and other cross-functional partners.
Participate throughout the product development lifecycle, from design and rapid prototyping through production deployment and ongoing improvement.

Benefits

medical, dental and vision insurance
a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution
paid parental leave
short and long-term disability coverage
basic life insurance
grants of Cisco restricted stock units
10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees
1 paid day off for employee’s birthday
paid year-end holiday shutdown
4 paid days off for personal wellness determined by Cisco
16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year, accrued at rate of 4.92 hours per pay period for full-time employees (non-exempt)
flexible vacation time off program (exempt)
80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter
up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward from one calendar year to the next
Additional paid time away may be requested to deal with critical or emergency issues for family members
Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer
annual bonuses (non-sales roles)
performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary (sales roles)