Technical Leader - Isovalent Secure Workload (Observability) (remote)
About The Position
This role is for a Technical Lead within a dynamic engineering organization focused on building software for workload security products. These products cater to complex and scalable customer environments, protecting critical application workloads from advanced threats. The Technical Lead will guide a team of engineers, focusing on improving Scale, Performance, Reliability, Robustness, and Security of solutions. The role involves providing technical leadership and making architectural contributions to backend services responsible for collecting and processing telemetry at scale, reacting to environment changes by rendering policies, implementing low-latency API endpoints, and handling failure modes in complex distributed systems.
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.
- Embraces agile methodologies that involve rapid prototyping by feedback gathered from customers, peers and technical solution architects, customer enablement engineers and support engineers.
- 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 a highly scalable manner to a 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 that will be deployed in highly complex distributed system environments and involve failure modes unique to those environments.
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 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 (for non-sales roles)
- performance-based incentive pay (for sales roles)
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
