Principal Software Engineer, Load Balancer

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🕒 July 25

🇨🇭 Switzerland – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

👻 Ghost score 26%

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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

• Define and evolve the architecture of our enterprise-grade load balancer. • Lead design and development of the load balancer’s data plane, control plane and orchestration tools for scalable traffic management and high availability within Kubernetes. • Guide the team through technical decisions, design reviews, and performance/security optimizations. • Collaborate across engineering, product, and customer teams to align technical direction with business needs. • Contribute to and uphold engineering best practices, code quality, and operational excellence.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelors Computer Science degree, or related fields • 5+ years of experience developing load balancing software, preferably with Go • Experience with Kubernetes, Cloud Native workloads and/or distributed systems • Knowledge about Linux systems design, security and/or networking, Linux kernel • Desire to write high quality and efficient code • Experience designing and implementing APIs • A public track record of open-source code commits is a plus.

🏖️ Benefits

• Inclusive and diverse workplace • Commitment to employee success • Remote work options