Software Engineering Technical Leader -- Secure Workload Agent

Cisco•San Jose, CA

About The Position

The Secure Workload engineering team develops the Unified Agent that provides runtime visibility, workload protection, and policy enforcement across physical servers, virtual machines, cloud infrastructure, and containerized environments. As the platform footprint continues to expand, the team is investing in support for additional operating systems and processor architectures, including IBM AIX on Power, IBM System z, Solaris/SPARC, and other specialized enterprise platforms. This work enables Cisco to support some of the world’s largest financial institutions, government organizations, and enterprise customers running mission-critical infrastructure. This is a highly technical engineering team where software engineers work close to the operating system, compilers, and kernel. Team members own complex platform enablement efforts, collaborate closely with engineers across the Secure Workload and Isovalent organizations, and contribute to technologies that power runtime security for modern infrastructure.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree with 12+ years of related experience, or Master’s degree with 8+ years of related experience, or PhD with 5+ years of related experience.
Experience developing software in C for Linux or UNIX-based operating systems.
Experience with operating system internals, kernel programming, or kernel driver development.
Experience with compilers, cross-platform compilation, and debugging techniques including crash dump or core dump analysis.
Experience developing software for enterprise operating systems or multiple processor architectures.

Nice To Haves

Experience developing software for IBM AIX.
Experience developing software for IBM Power (PowerPC) and/or IBM System z (s390x) architectures.
Experience developing software for Solaris or other UNIX operating systems.
Experience developing host-based security, endpoint, networking, or systems software that interacts with operating system kernels.
Experience mentoring software engineers and leading technical design or implementation efforts across complex engineering projects.

Responsibilities

Design, develop, and optimize low-level software components for the Secure Workload Unified Agent using C, with a focus on operating system and kernel-level functionality.
Develop and maintain support for enterprise operating systems and architectures including Linux, IBM AIX, IBM Power, IBM System z, Solaris, and other supported platforms.
Diagnose complex software issues using crash dump and core dump analysis, debugging tools, and operating system internals to improve product reliability and performance.
Collaborate with engineers across Secure Workload, Tetragon, and Isovalent to deliver runtime security capabilities and platform enhancements for enterprise customers.
Mentor junior engineers through technical guidance, design discussions, and code reviews while driving engineering excellence across the team.

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
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
performance-based incentive pay