Technical Leader, Performance Engineering - Tetragon

Cisco • San Jose, CA

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About The Position

As a Technical Leader, you will be at the forefront of advancing Tetragon’s capabilities. You will guide architectural direction while staying deeply engaged in building the systems that power our platform. Your impact will allow Tetragon to be used on resource constraint platforms as well as scale its capabilities to meet the increasing demands of security protection across a variety of platforms. You will collaborate closely with teams across Cisco to understand different use-cases and optimize Tetragon to meet different requirements. In this role, you’ll solve some of the most complex system-level challenges in observability and infrastructure, helping Tetragon evolve to meet the needs of the modern runtime security landscape.

Requirements

• Bachelors + 8 years of related experience, or Masters + 6 years of related experience, or PhD + 3 years of related experience
• 8+ years of experience in systems programming (C, Go, or similar; Tetragon is primarily written in Go).
• Experience in any of these areas: Linux systems, Kernel-level development or eBPF programming for observability or security use cases, or experience in building scalable Go systems.
• Experience in performance analysis and optimization.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in analyzing and improving the performance and memory consumption of eBPF and Go programs.
• Experience in debugging and optimization with a track record of delivering scalable systems.
• Knowledge of eBPF for observability or security use cases.
• Solid background in Linux systems and kernel-level concepts.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes and cloud-native environments.
• Exposure to real-time streaming/aggregation systems and database performance optimization.
• Contributions to open-source projects in networking, observability, or distributed systems.
• Experience working across diverse, distributed teams.

Responsibilities

• Develop high-quality Go (and eBPF) code for the Tetragon project.
• Understand and analyze Tetragon’s performance and overheads
• Design and implement novel ways to minimize Tetragon’s CPU overhead and memory footprint
• Partner across teams to align requirements, define integration points, and deliver production-ready solutions.
• Contribute to open-source projects and represent Cisco Isovalent in community discussions.
• Participate in architecture reviews, code reviews, and documentation.

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
• flexible vacation time off program
• paid time away for employee’s birthday
• paid year-end holiday shutdown
• 4 paid days off for personal wellness
• 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter
• optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer
• annual bonuses

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior