Technical Leader – Software Engineering

🕒 May 8

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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Cisco

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1984

🔧 Hardware

🔐 Security

🏢 Enterprise

Hardware • Security • Enterprise

Cisco is a multinational technology company that provides networking hardware, software, and services to enterprises, service providers, and governments. It builds routers, switches, optical transceivers, programmable silicon, and edge computing platforms, and offers security, collaboration (Webex), observability, and AI-enabled software and support services to help organizations design, operate, and secure large-scale networks and data centers. Cisco also delivers professional services, training, and cloud-managed solutions to support digital transformation and AI-ready infrastructure.

📋 Description

• Develop high-quality Go and eBPF code for the Tetragon project • Design and implement new Tetragon features for runtime security detection and enforcement • Design and optimize systems for large-scale Tetragon deployment and operation in Kubernetes or VM platforms • Architect infrastructure that converts raw event data into intelligence streams with minimal performance overhead • Contribute to open-source projects and represent Cisco Isovalent in community discussions • Participate in architecture reviews, code reviews, and documentation • Guide architectural direction while remaining deeply engaged in building platform systems • Design high-performance data pipelines and optimize database and distributed-system performance • Collaborate with Cisco teams, including Hypershield and Splunk, to create enterprise-security integration points

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelors + 8 years of related experience, or Masters + 6 years of related experience, or PhD + 3 years of related experience • 10+ years of experience in systems programming (Go, C, or similar) • Experience building system software in Go (or similar) and/or eBPF • Experience in system-level development, Linux kernel development, distributed systems, or run-time security systems • Knowledge of eBPF for observability or security use cases • Experience in debugging and optimization with a track record of delivering scalable systems • Solid background in Linux systems and kernel-level concepts • Familiarity with Kubernetes and cloud-native environments • Experience integrating with observability platforms (e.g., Splunk) or SaaS security/analytics systems • Familiarity with CVE workflows, vulnerability data pipelines, or security event modeling • 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