Technical Leader, Performance Engineering

🕒 May 7

🏄 California, Maine, +3 more states – Remote

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💵 $210.6k - $305.1k / year

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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 • 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

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

🏖️ Benefits

• medical, dental and vision insurance • 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution • paid parental leave • short and long-term disability coverage • basic life insurance • 10 paid holidays per full calendar year • 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 for non-exempt employees • flexible vacation time for exempt employees • 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter