Principal Software Engineer, Tetragon

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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 • Extend Tetragon capabilities to mitigate security vulnerabilities • Enhance Tetragon to better understand and control the execution flow of native (e.g., written in C/C++) or runtime-based (Java, Python, Go, etc.) applications • Enhance Tetragon capabilities to filter malicious network packets that can trigger vulnerabilities in applications/systems • Enhance Tetragon, and potentially the kernel and the eBPF sub-system, to mitigate against kernel-level vulnerabilities • Design and optimize systems to deploy and manage Tetragon across large fleets, in K8s or other environments (VMs) • Architect infrastructure that converts raw event data into intelligence streams with minimal performance overhead • 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 + 15 years of related experience, or Masters + 12 years of related experience, or PhD + 8 years of related experience or equivalent experience • 10+ years of experience in systems programming (C, C++, Go, Rust, or similar; Tetragon is primarily written in Go) • Proven experience leading technical direction or architecture for runtime security systems, observability, or similar • Experience in OS-level development, distributed systems, or database systems • Experience in debugging and performance optimization with a track record of delivering scalable systems • Experience building eBPF-based systems 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) • Familiarity with CVE workflows, vulnerability data pipelines, or security event modeling (preferred) • Familiarity with how vulnerable software is exploited at all levels (preferred) • Strong experience in networking protocol analysis or experience in developing networking switches (e.g., L2/L3 protocols like ARP, DHCP, SNMP) (preferred) • Contributions to open-source projects in networking, observability, or distributed systems (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 floating holiday for non-exempt employees • 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 off program for exempt employees • up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward from one calendar year to the next • additional paid time away may be requested • optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer