Technical Leader - Isovalent Secure Workload (Observability) (remote)

Cisco•Milpitas, CA

4d•$186,900 - $267,700•Remote

About The Position

As a Technical Lead in Cisco’s Isovalent Secure Workload (Observability) organization, you will provide technical leadership to a team of engineers building software for workload security products used in complex, scalable customer environments. The role focuses on improving scale, performance, reliability, robustness, and security, and includes architectural contributions to backend services. These services collect and process telemetry at scale, respond to environmental changes by rendering policies for large numbers of enforcement points, and provide low-latency API endpoints that process large volumes of data. The systems are deployed in complex distributed environments with distinctive failure modes. Cisco Isovalent and Cisco Secure Workload are building products to secure workloads and AI infrastructure. The role is U.S.-remote and contributes to Cisco Secure Workload, a product offering workload protection and micro-segmentation as part of the Hybrid Mesh Firewall solution.

Requirements

At least 6 years of 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.
A bachelor’s degree with 6 years of related experience, a master’s degree with 4 years, a Ph.D. with 2 years, or an equivalent combination of education and experience; alternatively, at least 10 years of relevant professional experience in lieu of a degree.

Nice To Haves

Proficiency in computer science foundations, including algorithms, systems, databases, performance engineering, and security architecture.
Schema and data modeling design experience.
Experience with large-scale event-processing architectures.
Experience in systems programming and performance engineering.
Experience with security architecture and database design.
Kubernetes experience.
Experience programming with cloud APIs for AWS, Azure, or GCP.
Comfort with agile methods involving rapid prototyping and feedback from customers, peers, technical solution architects, customer enablement engineers, and support engineers.
Technical leadership skills and interest in architecting, designing, analyzing, and brainstorming solutions that improve products and deliver customer-facing capabilities.

Responsibilities

Provide technical leadership to a team of software engineers.
Make architectural contributions to backend services.
Build services that collect and process telemetry at scale from customer-environment data sources.
Build systems that react to environmental changes and render policies at scale to numerous enforcement points.
Implement API endpoints that respond with minimal latency while processing large volumes of data.
Develop software designed for complex distributed environments and their distinctive failure modes.
Contribute to improvements in scale, performance, reliability, robustness, and security.

Benefits

Medical insurance
Dental insurance
Vision insurance
401(k) plan with Cisco matching contribution
Paid parental leave
Short- and long-term disability coverage
Basic life insurance
Cisco restricted stock unit grants may be available, subject to eligibility and vesting conditions
10 paid holidays per full calendar year
One floating holiday for non-exempt employees
A paid day off for the employee’s birthday
Paid year-end holiday shutdown
Four paid personal wellness days
Paid vacation: 16 days per full calendar year for non-exempt employees; exempt employees participate in a flexible vacation time-off program with no defined limit, subject to availability and business limitations
80 hours of sick time provided on hire and each January 1, with up to 80 unused hours carried forward
Additional paid time away may be requested for critical or emergency family issues
Optional 10 paid volunteer days per full calendar year
Annual bonuses for eligible non-sales employees, subject to Cisco policies