Software Engineering Technical Leader - Isovalent (Remote)

Cisco•Milpitas, CA

1d•Remote

About The Position

We are a highly dynamic engineering organization that works on building software for workload security products that cater to highly complex and scalable customer environments to protect their crown jewel application workloads from increasingly complex threat vectors. As a Technical Lead, you will work with and provide technical leadership to a team of highly motivated engineers working on solutions to ship or deploy for our customers, with a focus on improving Scale, Performance, Reliability, Robustness, and, most importantly, Security. In this role you’ll provide technical leadership and make architectural contributions in backend services that: Collect and process telemetry at scale from data sources in customer environments React to changes in environment and render policies in highly scalable manner to large number of enforcement points Implement API endpoints that need to respond with minimal latencies even when crunching large volumes of data. Will be deployed in highly complex distributed system environments and involve failure modes unique to those environments.

Requirements

At least 6+ years' experience building software systems in one or more programming languages such as Go, C++, or Java.
Technical leadership experience in a software engineering environment
Agile experience
Bachelor's degree with 6 years of related experience, Master's with 4 years, PhD with 2 years, or equivalent combination of education and experience. In lieu of a degree, a minimum of 10 years of relevant professional experience

Nice To Haves

Proficiency in Computer Science foundational areas, including algorithms, systems, databases, performance engineering and security architecture
Schema/Data modeling design experience
Experience with large-scale event processing architectures
Experience in systems programming and performance engineering
Experience working with security architecture and database design
Kubernetes experience
Experience programming using cloud APIs for AWS, Azure, or GCP
A professional who embraces agile methodologies that involve rapid prototyping by feedback gathered from customers, peers and technical solution architects, customer enablement engineers and support engineers.
A technically skilled leader who enjoys architecting, designing, analyzing, and brainstorming solutions that improve the product and produce customer-facing capabilities

Responsibilities

Provide technical leadership and make architectural contributions in backend services
Collect and process telemetry at scale from data sources in customer environments
React to changes in environment and render policies in highly scalable manner to large number of enforcement points
Implement API endpoints that need to respond with minimal latencies even when crunching large volumes of data
Work on solutions to ship or deploy for our customers, with a focus on improving Scale, Performance, Reliability, Robustness, and, most importantly, Security.

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
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 (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
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 (for non-sales roles)